stars and fireflies

[Kurt]

 

[Kurt]

Explanation: Fix your digital camera to a tripod, start a long series of exposures, and you too can record star trails. The concentric arcs traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis often produce dreamlike scenes in otherwise familiar situations. Fall asleep, though, and the results might surprise you. Setting up on a summer night, photographer Mike Rosinski began his exposures, initially planning to capture about 45-55 minutes worth of star trails from his yard in Hartland, Michigan, USA. But he dozed, only to awaken some 3 hours later to find his camera had continued to run until the battery died. Composing the resulting images, the graceful concentric star trails were expected, along with light from a late rising Moon glinting on windows. Still, as he slept on the warm night a blizzard of yellow streaks flooded the scene, not left by fairies but fireflies.

 

[mputnal]

After all these year of not understanding Van Gogh's A Starry Night I finally got it. I always thought he was a little whacky but maybe he had an extreme perception of depth. Thanks!

 

[DD]

I love this.

 

[Carol G]

So beautiful!
And I have to mention, the other day I saw a firefly in Watersound! I have never seen them down here before, I thought they were just an "up north" thing; it was really neat to see!

 

[lms47]

A firefly, huh? I have lived here 11 years and miss seeing fireflys at night. Glad you saw one!

 

[iwishiwasthere]

WOW! Great image!