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Three Ants Entombed in Sunflower Resin Poster
by Steven Schwartzman
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Three Ants Entombed in Sunflower Resin poster by Steven Schwartzman. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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I'd only seen this phenomenon once before, several years earlier, so I was excited to find another occurrence. This time three large ants (rather... more
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Artist's Description
I'd only seen this phenomenon once before, several years earlier, so I was excited to find another occurrence. This time three large ants (rather than two smaller ones) had gotten trapped in the sticky resin that's produced by the stalks of sunflower plants (Helianthus annuus). Ants are powerful relative to their tiny body size, but not powerful enough to extricate themselves from the gooey sunflower resin, which becomes their tomb.
About Steven Schwartzman
I've been involved with photography since the late 1960s, when I got my first real camera toward the end of my two years in Honduras as a Peace Corps math teacher. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s I went through a phase of black and white infrared photography, often even in 3-D. My current period began in 1999. Call me a nature photographer and you won't be wrong, but because there's not a lot of majestic scenery where I live (which is Austin, Texas), I've gotten interested in portraying the native plants of the region, especially our many wildflowers. Along with them come occasional butterflies, birds, and other small creatures. I often think of all these subjects, even the plants, as if they were posing for portraits, so you could...
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Lyudmila Prokopenko
!!!!!!!++++!!!!!!!!
Steven Schwartzman replied:
You may be in Ukraine, but I understand your comment perfectly and have no need of a translator. Thanks.
Maria Coulson
Interesting capture. LF
Steven Schwartzman replied:
I felt fortunate to come across this.
Dolores Kaufman
How wonderful that you were able to capture one of nature's "decisive moments", and that even in death there can be beauty.
Steven Schwartzman replied:
Thanks. That's just how I hoped people would see this. The decisive moment has a venerable history in photography.