Ants in the New York Times

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Temnothorax marked for studies of individual behavior at the University of Arizona

Today's New York Times is carrying a profile of myrmecologist Anna Dornhaus. It is nice to see Anna's work receiving such attention, great and important, blah blah blah, but the really important part is this. The editors had the excellent taste to illustrate their piece with some ant and bee photographs of mine.

The online edition also hosts an ant slide show to accompany the story. The Times trimmed the 22 photos I suggested down to an efficient 15, but I've preserved the director's cut here. For reasons unknown they decided against the queen ant shots. And against the amazing gliding Cephalotes.

All the same, I'm happy. This is my photographic debut in the print version of the Times, and they've done good work with it.

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So Kallen over at the Biojournalism blog goes on a diatribe about great Echinoderms are, blah blah blah regeneration blah blah blah pentaradial symmetry. She then asks of her readers:

Ha! I thought I recognized your work!

Congrats, and good on them!

Don't forget to update your profile: "such venues as Ranger Rick.... and a small-town newspaper, The New York Times"

Congratulations! Amazing shots.

Great photos. Hate to think how long in took for them to paint ants.

Congratulations and keep up the great work! Don't forget to add "shown in numerous educational presentations given nationally to pest control operators" to your list of kudos! Thank you for being so generous, Janet

Great shots! I still have to figure out how to get my own photography into NY Times, but from reading the intro, I learned that apparently the "blowing up my ego enough" part needs some more work in my case... ;-)

By Daniel Stolte (not verified) on 30 Apr 2009 #permalink

I learned that apparently the "blowing up my ego enough" part needs some more work in my case... ;-)thanks...