Spot the ant

Already tricky enough to try photographing a flower with a macro lens - the wind (even in the form of a gentle zephyr) is a classic complicator - but made a lot more so when there's an insect moving about on the same hunting ground. 
Not because they're not as interesting as the flower - indeed, insects tend to add interest to the pic - but because they move so fast it's very difficult for both the camera and the camera operator to keep up with them.
They can really cover some ground when they're checking out the flower as a potential source of food, in part because that's really the whole point of their insect role: to identify potential sources of food as quickly as possible so no other insects get in there first.
Took a lot of pics - more than a handful, but well shy of a hundred - to try to capture this guy on his foraging duties, but when checking through them more carefully on my computer, this was the best result by far.
He's only spottable at all because his front legs just managed to get into the frame, and in focus, in time for the shutter to open and close.
However, by the time the camera was able to take the next frame, even though it was set on continuous shooting mode, the rest of his body had come into view, passed by in a blur, and then disappeared from sight, stage right.That's very fast.
Meantime, the flower itself was only too happy to stay pretty well perfectly still and in focus for the duration. So unlike the ant, this particular species of Grevillea flower is not generally known for its high velocity. Which is probably much more appreciated by macro photography dabblers of all skill levels than by the average, person-in-the-street punter.
Like a bud next to an already-open flower, the ant - or his front sets of legs, at least - is more notable for its potential action than for its action at the time the shutter came down.
But I'm very pleased to report that the ant's next actions were not to change into Reverse gear and quickly go back the way it came, like some more camera-shy ants are inclined to do; but rather to live up to its innate abilities and keep moving forward from stage left right through centre frame and out the other side. All before the shutter had time to open up and close again.
Did I already say that's fast? If I hadn't, then: yes, it is fast. Very fast. So fast, in fact, that this is all of the little bugger I was able to get into the pic.