Title: Honolulu Creeper, v2, Edit J.

Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).
☆ Style & Technique: Scanography, using an EPSON Flatbed Scanner.

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Title: MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3.

Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

About this Ant Photograph:

This is a digital photographic manipulation art piece of an ant photograph I created at nighttime.

I was looking for insects to photograph, for some reason. I guess I like to see what tiny creatures are prowling about at nighttime. I saw a long, continuous line of black ants hauling what appeared to be ant pupae–silk cocoons that enclose young ants. Each of the ants were carrying one of these, so I assume the ant colony was moving house at nighttime.

I wanted to isolate a single ant with pupa. Of course, I had to use a macro lens, and I also needed to use an off-camera flash to provide a touch of fill flash (camera-right and above the subject).

The ant was moving fast so I had to pre-focus at a spot in the frame where I wanted to capture the tiny beast.

Can you imagine the strength that an ant must have to carry an object that may be equal its own weight (or maybe more) and to do this incredible feat over long distances (distant for an ant).

Ants are very interesting, and sometimes shocking to me. One time, on the other side of the island, I was slowly driving along a remote road looking for things to photograph, and right in front of me, out of one side of the jungle, and then going across the road in a straight line, and then back into the jungle on the other side of the road, was a caravan of HUGE ANTS–I couldn’t believe how huge these black ants were (‘huge’ means maybe 1 inch in length).

I didn’t want to get too close without being able to identify exactly what species they were–some ant species are quite dangerous. The Semut Api (Fire Ants, Genus Solenopsis) and Semut Selangor (Selangor Ant or Ipoh Ant, also known as ‘arboreal bicolored ant’: the species, Tetraponera rufonigra — from the family, Formicidae) are dangerous and have very painful bites. Nevertheless, I had no idea what these big ants were, so I kept my distance and watched them. Maybe these were a group of Bullet Ants (Paraponera clavata), or Dinoponera quadriceps (an ant in the subfamily Ponerinae), because they were so big for ants. However, these two species are not native to Malaysia, unless, by accident some got transported here and grew into a colony. You never know exactly what exists out there in the jungle–there are probably species of ants that have not been identified yet. All that I know for sure is that it was a big ant species.

Malaysia is home to probably the most suicidal ant in the world: Colobopsis saundersi.

Its defensive behaviours include self-destruction by autothysis, a term coined by Maschwitz and Maschwitz (1974). Two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of the ant’s body. When combat takes a turn for the worse, the worker ant violently contracts its abdominal muscles to rupture its gaster at the intersegmental fold, which also bursts the mandibular glands, thereby spraying a sticky secretion in all directions from the anterior region of its head…[it] can immobilize all nearby victims. (Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobopsis_saundersi)

Wow! I got sidetracked with exp|0ding suicidal ants. Let us get back to my big-ant story–this incident happened in the pre-digital days. I took a couple shots with colour film, but the results were not good, and the negatives have since gone missing, or were damaged and I discarded them long ago. Too bad I didn’t have digital camera technology back then (around 1995 or thereabouts).

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Honolulu Creeper, v2, Edit J

Title: Honolulu Creeper, v2, Edit J.

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MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3

Title: MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3.

About this Ant Photograph:

Malaysia is home to probably the most suicidal ant in the world: Colobopsis saundersi.

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
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Neem v.1, Edit G

Title: Neem v.1, Edit G.

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Title: Honolulu Creeper, v2, Edit J.

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Title: MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3.

About this Ant Photograph:

Malaysia is home to probably the most suicidal ant in the world: Colobopsis saundersi.

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #Penang, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #botanical, #order, #Green, #Neem, #Leaf, #Leaves, #blackant, #Ant, #Nighttime, #Painters, #Macro, #Closeup,

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Title: Neem v.1, Edit G.

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#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #Penang, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #botanical, #order, #Green, #Neem, #Leaf, #Leaves, #Scanography, #Painters,

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