Firefly In-Flight

I think I can safely say that this was the most challenging, and the best photo I have taken in the almost 20 years I have been a photographer. Not to mention - I probably looked like a crazy person dancing around my yard (from 10pm - 3:30am) every night for a week straight. If my stoner of a neighbour happened to see me, he probably thought I was chasing something invisible for hours on end. He probably had himself a good trip at my expense. Joke’s on him. I wasn't chasing anything invisible. I was chasing fireflies, and I did in fact manage to photograph a lightning bug in complete darkness. And it only took several nights, lack of sleep, lots of gas money to drive from home to the cabin, and hundreds of out of focus and out of frame photos to do so. By the third night of trying and getting really frustrated - I began to get a rhythm going, and managed to get a few more in-flight shots. I will post those soon, and explain how I did it. I'm posting this one now to prove to myself that maybe I didn't fully lose it during my cringey "spiritual firefly/authentic movement dance routine" that went on for 7 nights.