With her Lumix camera in hand, Lana Ng carefully leaned over the table, her focus unswayed by the crowds shuffling around her. She closed one eye, steadied her lens and got just the right shot: a tiny black ant nearly tucked away in the long, elegant, softly pointed petals of a white dahlia.
It was just how she wanted to spend her 11th birthday.
“You have to do something special for your birthday, right?” she said. “So I thought maybe we should come here.”…