Author and National Geographic Explorer, National Wildlife and Ranger Rick photographer Gail Shumway of Sarasota, FL took the firefly photo in Lafayette, IN.
In Gail’s words:
“The
image of the firefly that will be on the postage stamp was taken about 10 years
ago in Lafayette, Indiana. Lafayette is where I grew up as a child. I live in
Sarasota, Florida now.
I
was in a soybean field and it was getting close to dusk but I still had enough
ambient light to take the shot. There were many fireflies in the field at the
time and they were flying all around me. I set up my camera on a tripod close to
the ground. This was a shot where I needed to use the available light. I could
not use a flash because it would over power the light I wanted to capture from
the insect. I focused on a soybean leaf close to the ground in hopes that one
of the fireflies would land on it and at the same time emit its light. I took
quite a few images over a period of 30 minutes before I got the one that I
wanted.
I
used a Nikon F4, 35 mm SLR film camera and a 105 mm macro lens set at f/5.6 for
1/30 sec. using Fujichrome Velvia film.”
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