I spent the better part of a half-hour trying to photograph fireflies out my bedroom window tonight. Nothing.
"There is certainly something a little supernatural about fireflies. Nobody pretends to understand them. They are akin to the tribes of fairy, survivals of the elder time when the woods and hills swarmed with the little green folk. It is still very easy to believe in fairies when you see those goblin lanterns glimmering among the fir tassels."
- L.M. Montgomery, The Golden Road
I've always wanted to see fireflies. I can imagine them being difficult to photograph
ReplyDeleteRachel, can it be there are no fireflies in Britain? I'll try harder to catch a photo. Or, maybe I can use the motion picture mode.
DeleteI kind of thought if I kept the shutter open 2, 3 or 4 seconds, something would show up in the photos, even if it was a little light trail, but it didn't happen.
Lisa, I don't think we have them - at least, if we do, they're very rare. We have glow-worms, apparently, but I've never seen them either!
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