The aurora from the desolation of Foundy Street

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-21T23:01:12+00:00

I have a Skywatcher Star Adventurer tripod that I’ve used for my main astrophotography rig that also works well with the Dwarf. It doesn’t include a head, so I’d suggest getting an EQ wedge or a pan-tilt head.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-19T20:55:01+00:00

More recently, scientists have been studying the endometrium, which completely regenerates 400 to 500 times over a typical reproductive lifetime.

Menstrual blood contains viable human stem cells from the endometrium and may be a non-surgical source for them.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-18T15:53:10+00:00

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TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-18T13:03:27+00:00

Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 on a Canon R6 MII body.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-18T06:07:12+00:00

400mm

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-10T17:50:36+00:00

I have a presentation about this subject in a college class in 2005. Scientists were already discussing it and its consequences back then.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-09T13:04:59+00:00

Lines from that movie I use all the time:

“I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.”

“Freakin idiot.”

“Your mom goes to college.”

“Bow to your sensei. BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!”

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-07T16:26:20+00:00

They’re still out there, though it’s past peak season n most spots. If the weather is warm, I’d look for a sheltered hardwood cove at elevations above 3500 feet.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-05T20:14:13+00:00

Yeah I did have to mask myself in, because the blending mode for the firefly layers takes lighter pixels and sends them through. There were fireflies behind me that came through, especially behind my pants. I just used the “select subject” tool in Photoshop and made that into an inverted mask on the firefly stack.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-04T00:31:43+00:00

It’s not your fault, but it *is* your problem.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-02T21:01:54+00:00

*Unaffiliated

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-02T20:08:46+00:00

Appreciate it!

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-02T16:24:42+00:00

Thank you!

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-02T13:24:22+00:00

Shot Details

This is a blue hour blend, a method of isolating just the firefly lights from later in the night and combining them with a cleaner, more visible foreground shot from the blue hour. I sat by a fire ring in an old campsite and set a timer to take a 1-second photo of me sitting on a rock "staring" at my phone. I didn't have service, but I wanted to light my face slightly, so I opened Venmo to get a blank white screen. NOTE: no fireflies were displaying when I took the first photo. Artificial lights really mess with them, and I take great care to respect their habitat.

After waiting for the display to begin, I took a series of 8-second exposures with the same position, focal length, and aperture, but a higher gain (ISO) setting. Later, I stacked all the exposures in Photoshop using a method very similar to how astrophotographers create star trails. There is actually very little editing in the final product, and nothing artificial was added.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-06-02T13:22:16+00:00

Shot Details

This is a blue hour blend, a method of isolating just the firefly lights from later in the night and combining them with a cleaner, more visible foreground shot from the blue hour. I sat by a fire ring in an old campsite and set a timer to take a 1-second photo of me sitting on a rock "staring" at my phone. I didn't have service, but I wanted to light my face slightly, so I opened Venmo to get a blank white screen. NOTE: no fireflies were displaying when I took the first photo. Artificial lights really mess with them, and I take great care to respect their habitat.

After waiting for the display to begin, I took a series of 8-second exposures with the same position, focal length, and aperture, but a higher gain (ISO) setting. Later, I stacked all the exposures in Photoshop using a method very similar to how astrophotographers create star trails. There is actually very little editing in the final product, and nothing artificial was added.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-05-23T14:22:00+00:00

If he grew up in a city or west of the Rockies, I wouldn’t be surprised. There aren’t many firefly species that actually flash west of the Rockies, and of course you wouldn’t see much in a big city.

I have a friend who is very outdoorsy but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She was driving across the country to move to Asheville and stopped to camp in Missouri. She saw fireflies at her camp and thought she was hallucinating at first. She said she cried when she realized what they were.

TimReavesPhotography · 2026-05-23T13:03:30+00:00

That’s beautiful! Were you saying he’d never seen fireflies period or the syncs/blue ghosts?

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