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A couple nights ago I walked home around dusk and noticed there were
lots of fireflies in the slightly wooded and tall grass areas right
next to where I live.  So last night around 10:30pm, I went outside 
with my camera and tripod and took some pictures and a few videos 
of the fireflies putting on their nightly show.  It was a very pleasant 
night out and since this wasn't a large wooded area, there were no
mosquitoes, so I could spend 20-30 minutes there without major blood loss.
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Most of the exposures were between 1-2 seconds with the camera on a 
high ISO setting.  I was using my telephoto lens so I could get some
tigher shots of groups of fireflies in the distance.  For others, I 
set up across the street.  The glow of the fireflies is quite bright, 
but in some of the pictures I've increased the brightness a bit to see 
some of the background.  At the pixel level it's quite noisy, but some 
of them look almost like paintings, which is cool.  
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I also have 3 brief videos of the fireflies, clocking in at under
2 minutes each (0:42, 1:59, and 1:22, respectively).
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July 15, 2020

DSC_4400: Fireflies in the grass.
DSC_4402: Fireflies in motion and standing still.
DSC_4404: Fireflies by the tall grass and the mysterious blackness beyond.
DSC_4405: More fireflies and grass, in a sort of impressionistic style.
DSC_4407: A longer shot with (at least) 4 fireflies active.
DSC_4408: A more impressionistic version of grass and fireflies.
DSC_4409: A firefly lights the tree leaves.  I quite like this one.
DSC_4411: Still more fireflies.
DSC_4416: Something weird in the sky!
DSC_4417: OK, it's Jupiter (maybe?) bisected by a power line.  It wasn't
actually intentional.  I was just too lazy to move the tripod.
DSC_4418: Looking across the street at other fireflies.
DSC_4419: Ominous woods behind the fireflies.
DSC_4421: A tree lit by fireflies with trees looming in the background.
Another of my favorites.