1) Pete Mauney's first roll of film ever shot seriously was composed mostly of night pictures. He is very familiar with the dark and capturing its surroundings with out the reflection of the sun. Every year Mauney waits for when the fireflys will frequent the property he lives on so he is able to make pictures of the biolumensence insects. With no major light source except for the moon, the pictures are composed of anywhere from forty to four hundred stacked frames with long exposure times.
2) In the photos shown above Mauney trys to capture the magic of fireflys before their short lifespan ends. However, in featureshoot's article, Mauney states that making pictures of the fireflys is something fun he does only on the side. "He enjoys their company, the way they move and dazzle, seemingly oblivious to human eyes."
3) These pictures struck a chord with me because they seem unreal, as if out of a fairytale, or animated movie. Pete Mauney was very sucessful in capturing the light of the fireflys. The multiple stacked shots create movement in the work and the small green dots of light while very present in the photo suggest more of a memory past, then present.
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