This is an interesting image of this ant "doing its thing" on this leaf. The ant is nicely presented and the accompany foliage frames the subject nicely. The overall image is slightly soft, and the ant exhibits a bit of granularity which might suggest extreme cropping to create this image. To my eye the balance of this presentation appears a bit off. The lower part of the image is overrepresented and might be cropped away. He upper left corner also appears a bit distracting and pulls my eye from the main subject. Here I suggest removing much of the plant elements in the upper left corner and cropping in from the bottom to balance the presentation some. As I have noted in the past, we don't always need to settle for just what our camera captures on our path to an effective image. I have included a version of this image with these suggestions to illustrate my thoughts. See what you think …   Posted: 07/10/2025 18:47:58

Hi Xiao: A really close in study of the ant perched on a flower bud. At this very high magnification even with your macro lens set at F/16 the photographer cannot achieve total sharpness on the subject. In this kind of a nature study one needs complete sharpness on the both subjects, flower buds and ant. I doubt even at F/22 would yield total sharpness, and then at f/22 diffraction becomes an issue. Probably the only way to achieve total sharpness would be photo stacking.

I do like the revision of the composition Charlie did in eliminating some elements in the frame that were distracting.   Posted: 07/12/2025 15:09:57

Nice capture of an Ant in its environment.
My only suggestions would be to completely removing the bottom leaf. I took the liberty of a slight editing: Slight cropping, rotation, increased contrast and decreased hightights:   Posted: 07/14/2025 19:13:57

Xiao, your sharp ant on the sharp flower bud is to be commended. I really like Pierre's recommendations and his tweaking of your image.   Posted: 07/19/2025 22:17:06