Jesper Lassen
Giant Ant, Kæmpemyre
Camponotus ligniperdus (Formicidae)
In Danish this is called a Giant Ant, and it is only found in one location in Denmark, the island of Bornholm, which is where I found this one on the family summer vacation last year. It is the largest ant we have here at around 15mm. When I picked up this one the queen was ready to take off and she was absolutely ginormous and more than 20mm in length. In fact she was the one that first caught our attention, and at first I thought it was a wasp of some kind, until the other workers and soldiers emerged from under the stump where they had their nest. I wouldn't take the queen, as she was clearly on her way out in the world to secure the species and unfortunatly I didn't get a good shot of her as she was quite lively, but she was a very impressive beast.
Anyway, this time I have ventured into flash land. This is something I haven't much experience in, but I can see that some of my macro heroes are using flash, and I guess there is no way around it anymore, so here goes!
144 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker, mostly DMAP.
1/200 sec, ISO200, 10:1, slightly cropped to trim the edges.
Lid by two flash units at 1/32 which were diffused by copy paper. A further piece of paper was wrapped around the 200mm objective.
Olympus OM-D E-M5, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 10x/0.28 on Olympus OM 200mm f/4 as tube lens.
Giant Ant, Kæmpemyre
Camponotus ligniperdus (Formicidae)
In Danish this is called a Giant Ant, and it is only found in one location in Denmark, the island of Bornholm, which is where I found this one on the family summer vacation last year. It is the largest ant we have here at around 15mm. When I picked up this one the queen was ready to take off and she was absolutely ginormous and more than 20mm in length. In fact she was the one that first caught our attention, and at first I thought it was a wasp of some kind, until the other workers and soldiers emerged from under the stump where they had their nest. I wouldn't take the queen, as she was clearly on her way out in the world to secure the species and unfortunatly I didn't get a good shot of her as she was quite lively, but she was a very impressive beast.
Anyway, this time I have ventured into flash land. This is something I haven't much experience in, but I can see that some of my macro heroes are using flash, and I guess there is no way around it anymore, so here goes!
144 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker, mostly DMAP.
1/200 sec, ISO200, 10:1, slightly cropped to trim the edges.
Lid by two flash units at 1/32 which were diffused by copy paper. A further piece of paper was wrapped around the 200mm objective.
Olympus OM-D E-M5, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 10x/0.28 on Olympus OM 200mm f/4 as tube lens.