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.
hai what photo? i hate roaches!
Me too, they’re such pests.
Damn!
Shock value!
I’m just curious how many people have purchased this image. Where would you hang it? =)
I have one in the kitchen, but no one has ever purchased this. I can understand why. 🙂
Excellent productive break!
Why am I not surprised red is your favorite color? :big-grin:
Thanks! I don’t know… would you be surprised if brown was my favorite? Nobody picks brown… except UPS executives. 😀
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I cringed when I saw this thumbnail, and I’m still grimacing a little while typing this comment. I hate roaches!
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.