{"id":656,"date":"2006-10-17T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/17\/moonlight-and-a-string-of-lights\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T17:36:18","slug":"moonlight-and-a-string-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/17\/moonlight-and-a-string-of-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonlight and a String of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a string of dragonfly lights hanging in a tree on the east side of my patio, where they often have the rising moon as a beautiful backdrop. This particular night, the full moon was glowing behind a misty veil of high clouds, and even though a camera can only capture a small portion of the luminous beauty of the moonlight, I felt compelled to take a photograph of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/moonlight-light-string.jpg\" alt=\"A full moon and a string of dragonfly lights in a tree\" title=\"A full moon and a string of dragonfly lights in a tree\" width=\"400\" height=\"572\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After taking the one normal photo above, I decided to take a few handheld, long exposure light trail photos just for fun. I jiggled the camera downward while the shutter was open and ended up with these strangely fence-like light trails created by the dragonfly lights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/light-trails-dragonfly-2.jpg\" alt=\"Long exposure light trail photo\" title=\"Long exposure light trail photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"346\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, I tried swirling the camera while aiming it at both the moon and lights, and this messy jumble of wiry light rings below emerged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/light-swirls.jpg\" alt=\"Long exposure light swirl photo\" title=\"Long exposure light swirl photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I then tried jiggling the camera vertically again and captured this dribbling row of electrifying light trails.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/light-trails-dragonfly-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long exposure light trail photo\" title=\"Long exposure light trail photo\" width=\"480\" height=\"346\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Light trail photos are always fun, and different light sources (<a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/01\/10\/light-trail-photographs\/\">Christmas lights bundled into a firefly lantern<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/10\/flashing-led-light-trails\/\">a flashing LED pin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/02\/digital-camera-fun\/\">a moving penlight<\/a>) can produce weirdly similar to wildly different results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a string of dragonfly lights hanging in a tree on the east side of my patio, where they often have the rising moon as a beautiful backdrop. This particular night, the full moon was glowing behind a misty veil of high clouds, and even though a camera can only capture a small portion&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/17\/moonlight-and-a-string-of-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-music-photography-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}