{"id":11166,"date":"2018-03-29T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2018-03-26T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T04:40:33","slug":"a-buggie-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-buggie-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"a buggie photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11168\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Photography-LIFE-Aug-16-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11168\" class=\"wp-image-11168 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Photography-LIFE-Aug.-16-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheap illumination before LEDs &#8211; 1948 LIFE article.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Did you ever watch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly\">fireflies<\/a> up at the cottage or in a small town or village at dusk? These little bugs give off a tiny bit of illumination to attract others (mates or food). On Aug 16, 1948, LIFE magazine published an article on an American scientist, Dr Ross Hutchins, who taped a dozen fireflies to the inner rim of an open hole in a board using their light to capture the image of a tiny statuette.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <em>Goldie<\/em> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/forum\/threads\/goldies-toronto.10654\/\">Urban Toronto<\/a> website for suggesting the 1948 LIFE article on using fireflies to illuminate closeups. Hardly practical &#8211; exposure took an hour at f\/2.5 using film and lenses common about seven decades ago!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Did you ever watch fireflies up at the cottage or in a small town or village at dusk? These little bugs give off a tiny bit of illumination to attract others (mates or food). On Aug 16, 1948, LIFE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-buggie-photograph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[398,706,1814,1815,425],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-camera","tag-closeup","tag-firefly","tag-illumination","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}