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Firefly dons his puke colored camouflage for a little sabotage in the muddy grounds of the Joe base camp.
This is the Umihotaru (aka. Sea-firefly). It is a man made island in the middle of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-line. It is meant as a stop over and tourist spot for travellers from Kanagawa area to Tokyo area (and vice versa).
Shot using a Sony NEX5 + Tamron 10-24 and Kenko CPL.
Hundreds of Fireflies in the field near Ramara's Lake St. John Airport. A magical evening spent searching for Noctilucent Clouds. Timelapse video soon!
I bet you're wondering why I would upload a picture of my backyard at night. Well, every summer the stars are falling from the sky to have a party in my backyard. Actually... the stars are still up there, it's just a bunch of fireflies! I've been trying to capture their light show on video, but that just isn't working out. So this is the best I could do to get them on camera. They show up better in the image when viewed large!
When I watch fireflies, the impression is lots of lights, even though there are actually very few lights at any one instant in time. Here, I merged 25 pictures, each 1.3 seconds long, to get the effect of a 33 second exposure.
Please tell me what you think. Does this create an effective impression of what a person would experience watching a group of fireflies at night? Or does it look fake?
A record shot of the firefly beetle larva.
Note the larvae of beetles of the family Lycidae also look very similar, except they do not glow.
A really old firefly night light in my room.I never thought it would work again...until I found out it was unplugged.Haha.
A Photuris sp. firefly at our blacklight at night. Walworth County, Wisconsin near Little Prairie. June 22, 2019.
Doesn't that spider look evil? This was actually a by-product of a failed photo mission to capture a free firefly lighting up. Like many animals, they face a tradeoff between advertising themselves to potential mates & advertising themselves to predators. Unfortunately, the behavioral adaptations that make it difficult for predators also make it difficult for photographers. :-) They don't start up in the evening until it's hard to see them except by their flash, they seldom flash except in flight, and by the time you can get a fix on them they've gone dark, then they've moved before their next flash. Then of course there are the photographic challenges of focusing on them, photographing them in the low light, or using camera flash without washing out the firefly flash. I might get 'em yet -- maybe I'll think about technique & try again next summer. And remember the DEET next time.
Anyway, one way to cheat is to focus on one that's been conveniently immobilized. This one was all trussed up by the spider, but still flashing -- caught in the act here. It's illuminated with camera flash, but you can still see the firefly's abdomen glowing with its own light. Admittedly pretty creepy, but kinda cool.
ID help welcome on the spider. I have another shot I can upload that shows a dorsal view, if that would help.
Day is quickly disappearing, and so is this firefly. They are terribly hard to track when they glow and impossible to track when they don't.
New summer project, building a tube amp head. Electronics experience - zero. But I'm starting to learn the difference between a resistor and a capacitor.
Titibasana - Firefly Pose at Power Yoga Hawaii
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