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Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum, and just wanted to share some of the photos of one of the colonies I keep, the Atta colombica.
I am a friend of Adam Hart the LCA expert, and have learnt a lot from him about these little beauties. This colony has been thriving and I will be looking to expand them to make it easier to photograph. Yup, you have guessed it right, I am a professional photographer and photographing LCA is one of my passions, so you will have to excuse me if you get Macro photographs of LCA overload

Astonishing photographs Ayub!!
Absolutely amazing.
I am, right now, putting my Nikon D3 in the bucket!
The Atta colombica look great. Do you have any similar photos of A cephalotes for comparison?

Ayub is the person for stunning macro! Absolutely amazing images

These are stunning! Do you have any watermarked that I could use on the website?

AdamHartScience wrote:Ayub is the person for stunning macro! Absolutely amazing images

Thanks Adam, I could spend a whole day watching and photographing these beauties.
I am setting up my Tropical House adequate with photography friendly features so I can run photography sessions and workshops in there to cater for this kind of photography.
Will keep everyone updated, its almost ready to be opened for the public

Britishants.com wrote:These are stunning! Do you have any watermarked that I could use on the website?

If you look up my twitter or facebook pages I have several images there that you can use. My website gallery also has a section where I display Invert macro in the wildlife gallery. I will put the links below.
Hope Andrew and the Admin are ok with it? Do let me know or feel free to remove the links if not please.
Facebook is
https://www.facebook.com/AminArt-230456 ... 51/?ref=hl

Twitter is https://twitter.com/aminart

And my website is http://www.aminart.co.uk/

Acromyrmexbob wrote:Astonishing photographs Ayub!!
Absolutely amazing.
I am, right now, putting my Nikon D3 in the bucket!
The Atta colombica look great. Do you have any similar photos of A cephalotes for comparison?

HI Andrew,
I have a huge collection of both, let me dig out a few of Atta cephalotes


Here is a winged male


and some worker Atta c

Hi Ayab, Is great having someone with your photography skills on here. Would love to own such a lens myself but they aren't cheap. Anyway am sure its one of those things where quality equipment can produce amazing photos in skilled hands lol.
Look forward to see more.

deansie26 wrote:Hi Ayab, Is great having someone with your photography skills on here. Would love to own such a lens myself but they aren't cheap. Anyway am sure its one of those things where quality equipment can produce amazing photos in skilled hands lol.
Look forward to see more.

Hi, you would be surprised at what you can use to take high magnification photographs like this, even higher, with extremely low cost equipment.
Like you said, its the right technique and skills that help capture these kind of images really. More than expensive equipment

I've got expensive equipment and my photos are sh*te!