For the photographers; the image above of an ant scurrying about its business whilst Emi rode past on her horse was taken with my Samsung S10 smartphone.  With focus being super-critical and depth of field a very few millimetres at best, the image was captured with the edge of the smartphone nearest to the camera lens resting on the fence rather than moving in free space, and using the highly responsive standard app rather than the more controllable Open Camera app that I usually use but which has a slight pause before capture.  The in-app sharpness is a bit overdone compared to if I had shot raw and processed it later, but at least the responsiveness meant that the ant I was tracking with my finger had not moved out of focus in the split second to capture. +40 shadows lift in Lightroom and corresponding +30 to dull the resultant digital noise, but otherwise as shot.

The image below is of my friend Aruna’s finger gently playing with another couple of the ants.  Taken with my Canon G1X mk III also at minimum focusing distance, it was more difficult to capture than the smartphone image because the required 10cm distance meant I was holding the camera in free space yet still with miniscule depth of field in which to capture the ant.  I compensated for this by taking a high speed burst of images, one of which is the one shown.

Steve