Monster Meal

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Photographed in Matheran.
Golden Backed Ants Camponotus sericeus working on a dead spider (not sure of the species- wold spider?). It is not clear to me whether the ants attacked and killed the spider, or are simply scavenging on its carcass.

This was intentionally shot with a shallow DoF as the shutter speed was already very low. I have a few higher DoF images shot using flash, but the lighting and colours in this one looked better to me.

Canon EOS 500D, Canon 100mm Macro USM
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/6
Av 8.0
EC -2/3
ISO 1600
Flash Off
Full-frame image
Processed in LR3

Thanks, comments and critiques awaited.