Photo: Fatality

Fatality
Photo of an American Cockroach, which I found on the floor in our house (we see these pretty often). I hit it a few times with a fly swatter, but then thought to put it on the counter and take a picture of it, with some food and food-related items in the background, plus the fly swatter, to make it more disturbing. On a technicality, he was still alive when I took this photo (moving his legs around a bit), but I didn’t want to hit him anymore so as not to crush him. Luckily he stayed still through the exposure, though you can see in the photo he has one of his legs up. Afterwards he had to be killed, of course. You’d think this’d be distasteful, but it just isn’t for some reason. :sunglasses:
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Fujifilm FinePix A360, 1/5, F2.81, 5.8mm, ISO100, 2006-04-29T23:40:33-04, 2006-04-29_23h40m33

Location: Thripp Residence, Ormond Beach, FL  32174-7227

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Please credit me as Richard Thripp.

11 thoughts on “Photo: Fatality

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  2. I cringed when I saw this thumbnail, and I’m still grimacing a little while typing this comment. I hate roaches!

    1. Thanks, Luis! The photo has served its purpose then. 😎 I’ll admit, I don’t like roaches either. I just let that go while taking and editing this photo, though.

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