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By awild on May 1, 2009.

..over at Photo Synthesis:

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  • Agrarian ants
  • Another way to humanize an insect photo
  • Ants in the New York Times
  • Photo technique: the white box
  • Humanizing the hordes: Anthropomorphism and science photography
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