Sunset fisherman, Nathon Pier Samui.

Camera: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 70D
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Focal Length: 73mm
Flash Used: No

If I'd known then what I know now about these ugly little bugs...

Long Horned Beetles IMG_4699.jpg

Are these the critters that make an impossibly loud and annoying sound at night? Almost like a sick car alarm?

If I'd known then what I know now about these ugly little bugs...

Long Horned Beetles IMG_4699.jpg

Are these the critters that make an impossibly loud and annoying sound at night? Almost like a sick car alarm?

I think these longhorn beetles just burrow into trees and kill them. I don't think they make much noise.

You may be thinking of Cicada. They make a high pitched noise:

I have the Cicada in my garden too but I usually find only their old skins hanging off trees or walls, or hose pipes:

I used to have a camera with "super macro" and got some good close-ups:

^^^ Same - same me...no different...

Oops Sorry.....

Colosseum Ladyboy Show - Pattaya, Thailand.

If I'd known then what I know now about these ugly little bugs...

Long Horned Beetles IMG_4699.jpg

Are these the critters that make an impossibly loud and annoying sound at night? Almost like a sick car alarm?

I think these longhorn beetles just burrow into trees and kill them. I don't think they make much noise.

You may be thinking of Cicada. They make a high ...

No the cicada sound isn't too bad. Whatever makes the sound that I occasionally hear at night is like nothing else. Guess I'll keep wondering. My gf thought it was the beetle.

'Dog Dawn' May15 2015 5:52am. Canon EOS-70D, f13, 1/40sec, ISO100, 33mm (raw image)

Kodak easyshare digital camera

Nong Nooch Gardens Pattaya touristy and kitsch.. he won a gold prize at the chelsea flower show !! if that counts (only 145kb mm)

Nong Nooch garden TV.jpg

taken with my trusty little hand held panasonic zoomix ...

I 'liked' you're photo budnycat because its pretty and nicely balanced, but I don't think that Nong Nooch Gardens has improved by the addition of all the stone animals and effigies. Have you seen The Gardens without the stone animals? I was there in 2004 and 2012.

Blue Hour in Bangkok

S Curve at Dusk

Many thanks to everyone for helping to make this photo competetion a great success once again.

The winners of this months competition are as follows......(a joint 1st and 3rd place,that's gonna give the guys at TVF support a headache )

1st place...... FarangFB

1st place...... 2alex4alex

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3rd place........ roodujardin

3rd place.......krobert6

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The competition for September is up and running now and can be found here