Myriad of Myrmicinae

We had stopped for a porch sale at a house in Warrensburg, New York, USA, in the Adirondack Region. When I got out of the car, I couldn't help but notice this huge number of ants congregating in this very small area. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, in this image. To appreciate the detail, please view this image in the Original Size. For this image, I used my manual focus Tamron Adaptall-2 Model 27A SP 28-80mm f3.5-4.2 CF Macro Lens and Tamron Adaptall-2 Pentax K A Mount on Pentax K20D camera, hand held, manually focused, Shake Reduction set to 85mm focal length, ISO 400, f22, 1/180 sec, with fill-in flash from camera's built-in electronic flash. This is a full resolution Large JPEG and is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) without any post-processing, editing, cropping, re-sizing, or adjustment.