For the title, I decided on this parody on the James Bond theme. It relates to both the ant's activity and mine. The 007 connection also describes the daring and exciting undertaking of scaling a structure high off the ground, and being a loner in that pursuit, which works with the Ch #4 theme. My ant is very interested in Mihajlo's Beemer in his Transporter pic. ;o)
I framed this shot to capture the whole flower, then cropped this way afterwards for a different perspective and to show more of the A1's macro capability. I used the inbuilt flash in P-TTL mode with tissue over the flash to soften the lighting a bit.
In PSE2, I used local contrast enhancement on all of the pic except the ant (before resizing down to post) with USM at 20%, 50 pixel radius and 1 level. I did the ant separately with a 25 pixel radius to avoid destroying the highlights. Having shot soft, I used some additional USM at 100%, 0.5 pixels and 1 level for sharpening once the pic was resized to post. The total USM combination would be too much for many pics, but works ok for the nature of this one.