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Fireflies on a Mid-summer Night

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.

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.

I also have 3 brief videos of the fireflies, clocking in at under 2 minutes each (0:42, 1:59, and 1:22, respectively).







July 15, 2020

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Fireflies in the grass.

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Fireflies in motion and standing still.

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Fireflies by the tall grass and the mysterious blackness beyond.

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More fireflies and grass, in a sort of impressionistic style.

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A longer shot with (at least) 4 fireflies active.

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A more impressionistic version of grass and fireflies.

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A firefly lights the tree leaves. I quite like this one.

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Still more fireflies.

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Something weird in the sky!

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OK, it's Jupiter (maybe?) bisected by a power line. It wasn't actually...(more)

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Looking across the street at other fireflies.

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Ominous woods behind the fireflies.

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A tree lit by fireflies with trees looming in the background. Another of my...(more)




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