Fireflies

This weekend I saw fireflies for the first time in my life. They started glowing around dusk. I tried to photograph them in the back yard but the lighting was terrible, so I drove off to the Heritage Rail Trail. Entire trees were flashing like it was Christmas. It was amazing, but too dark to get much except for a bunch of dots. It took a while to get used to the bats as well.





These above images are composites made from the "peaks" of nine separate 10 second exposures.



I snapped a pic of the moon (with earth-shine) on the walk back.

It had been a while since I used the digital camera and forgot to bring the 50mm lens with a hard stop at infinity which is invaluable when trying to focus at night.