Macro Photo Competition 2020 No 2 : Results
- Competition Winner : First Prize
- $548.00
- Judges Comment
- Congratulations for this first place with this awesome shot of these ants ! The light is just perfect and the details are wonderful ! A lovely shot.
- Photographers Comment
- Daniel Knop, Germany, Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, objective from a Minolta slide film scanner plus Novoflex bellows, Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker. The picture shows the 8 mm long ant Camponotus ligniperda meeting the largest ant species in the world, Camponotus gigas, 25 mm long.
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- Mark Of Excellence
- Judges Comment
- Great capture of this bee !
- Photographers Comment
- This was shot at downtown Santa Cruz, California. This is a realtively small town in Northern California and what I mostly like about this town is a very nice flavor or both urban as well as some rural vibes. I am always being a deep animal world lover (starting from wild aninals to birds and insects). During this strange time all over the World, I am pretty much stuck within the town and while roaming within familar places, I started only now to disciover that so many things that I haven't noticed all these times that I am spend in this town. In one of such exploration I found this bee and captured it in the frame. I have now even more admiration towards the Nature. This was shot with a Panasonic LUMIX G9 camera with a Olympus 60mm f/2.8 lens
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