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# God's own Photoshop
look at the paintjob on that.

Taken with my new ace Canon G7
biggy wallpapery versioner

(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:44, archived)
# ooh - I like those green shiny ones
also Shield bugs are great up close too

edit: enter it here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6723211.stm

how many shopped photos can we get entered?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:45, archived)
# ^this^
Stick it in the newsletter!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:56, archived)
# That sounds like fun.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# Ah, you may get flamed for it.
But I won't do it, pretty green beetle makes me happy.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:45, archived)
# well
i saw someone post a dead bee wallpaper thing the otherday so..

Not my usual post kind of thing its a one off don't hurt me.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:46, archived)
# People don't usually get flamed for posting a picture they've taken themselves
unless it starts of loads of other people all starting new threads to show of their photos.

Nice pic.

My missus is threatening to buy me a G7 if she wins the lottery. Seems too complicated, my Ixus 500 does the job well enough for my liking.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:49, archived)
# I had a 2 mega sony cybershot
I got my G7 from an ebay shop in hong kong i held my breath and it arrived was only 270
with EXTRA battery and a 4 Gig mem card and a
gay tripod and a case and and....
WELL WORTH IT, get one every shutter press is
an epic event TRULY.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:51, archived)
# Crumbs!
Thats very high quality o_O

Any effects on that?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:46, archived)
# no
it as is just photoshop curve teak to brighten it up a tiny tad.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:47, archived)
# aww, he's waving
*waves*
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:47, archived)
# I like it
macro stuff is great
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:47, archived)
# see, if it was me
i'd have shopped in a tiny fez and hookah pipe
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:47, archived)
# but it's not you is it?
it's a little green beetle
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:48, archived)
# what are you saying, like?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:49, archived)
# I'm saying that you, mictoboy - a boy of the micto variety
is not a beetle, of the little green variety, like innit eh mun?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# are you saying i'm flat?
are you saying i've got nowt?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# righten niblo
I reckon yew an me are gonnar ave words en innit

Caryn - 'old my snakebite and absynthe
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:55, archived)
# Ohhh, snakebite.
I almost fell off a big fountain in Derby because of that.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:56, archived)
# snakebite and falling often go together
*remembers one lunchtime during Finals after just 3 barleywine and scrumpy snakebites*
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:58, archived)
# I think the Jaegermeister didn't help.
But I loves it so.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:59, archived)
# Are you from the scouse part of Wales?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:53, archived)
# like innit mun
avin' it - lush mun
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# Hahahahahaha
Even in text form your accent is shite.

Bless you!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# what!!!
/is welsh
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:56, archived)
# Well you're pants at it, then.
:D
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# I escaped some time ago ;D
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:58, archived)
# Where to?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:02, archived)
# Swindon via Colchester
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:10, archived)
# that would have been worth a woo
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# if it was me i'd have squashed the little bastard
i reckon it's a cunningly disguised lily beetle, it doesn't fool me with it's cunning disguise. does it squeak?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:51, archived)
# how can it be cunningly disguised
if it doesn't even have any fake facial hair?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:53, archived)
# that's what's so cunning about it.
i haven't seen any lily beetles this year, which is why i'm so suspicious of this one.
the squeak will give it away.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# isn't that a weevil?
they are ace, i like bugs.

[edit] after a quick search, i have found that it appears to be a silver-green Leaf Weevil (Phyllobius argentatus).
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:49, archived)
# nice!
!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# he looks
like he's angry at kids playing on his lawn...
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# ooh
shiny, happy beetle!

*edits, like a ninja*
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# How odd
I've just found a crap midi harpsichord version of Shiny Happy People.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:52, archived)
# i miss midi-hell
:(
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# almost REM lyrics there
*sings*

do do do do dooo doo do do do do dooo do
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:52, archived)
# cool!
but he needs to shave his back
=)
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:52, archived)
# he certainly
does, in the next shot he opened up his wings
and for a fraction of a second i could see
all it's robotic inner workings i pressed
the shutter quickly and ended up with a
blank thumb, GUTTED.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# I just go for waxing
Lasts longer
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:55, archived)
# but you have to let igrow before you rewax!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:59, archived)
# on your
Thumb? :)
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:01, archived)
# Squish him!
before and after photos please
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# MACRO!

Too subtle...?
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:55, archived)
# all my bee ones
end up blurred they seem to move at the last min
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# hahaha
I remember him :)
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# Winnar!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:58, archived)
# oh my

*scrubs eyes*
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:00, archived)
# ARRRGGHHH
Goetse bee
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:35, archived)
# Oooh purrrdy!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:57, archived)
# love macros
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 10:59, archived)
# whoah
i like that!
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:03, archived)
# OH WOW
That's lovely.
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:03, archived)
# what is he
stadning on?

Great picture
(, Tue 26 Jun 2007, 11:17, archived)