Firefly Experience - Summer Night with Fireflies (Lightning Bugs)

NOTE! For optimal viewing, watch this video at night, with all the lights turned off, full screen with sound turned on.
In this short movie, I tried to capture my feelings and experiences with fireflies in the woods near my house in Fairfield, Iowa. I wanted to document not only their beauty and magical glow, but also behavior in their natural environment.
I have chosen not to do any digital manipulation to the video itself, so the footage came straight from the camera. This is real-time footage of fireflies!
Sit back, relax and enjoy the summer magic.
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Video: Radim Schreiber
Music: Tico Lasola

[@johnfronza2983]

My wife and I used to sit on the deck with a glass of wine and watch them surface at dusk in the forest behind our home. She passed in January after fighting Cancer for almost 2 years. I used to call her Firefly because she truly was the Light of My Life. A few nights ago, and this lasted for 4 days, a firefly got into the house, flew up to the den from the first floor, and stayed there for the entire night. Most people call it coincidence, I call it comforting.

[@threalkrazyk8852]

Beautiful

[@beingsepia]

oh God, what a beautiful story

[@bluey6771]

Beautiful

[@syn707]

I call it...Spiritual. And I am not a spiritual person.

[@deesweet2587]

John Fronza aweee😢 God Bless

[@ouassinidechezcarglass9482]

I remember being a teenager in Czech Republic, watching those beautiful moving lights when I passed by a forest. It was before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and even though I now tend to forget who I am and what I lived, I still remember how beautiful this moment was. Now I'll go cry again lol. Take care people.

[@vaishnaviPittala-c9x]

take care you

[@smurfiennes]

When I was a kid, I remember that I saw them a couple of times when we had a holiday up in the mountain. Last year I saw them again for the first time in decades. It was truly magical that I vowed to do a pilgrimage to that woods annually. There’re only a couple of places in my country where I could see them in the summer. This year I saw only a couple of them in mid July. Hopefully they don’t go extinct anytime soon.

[@zahravictoriaart8519]

I still come back to this video and I feel like im in the heaven! It makes me so happy, feel loved and cared and in peace... Thank you again!

[@TheSniper4hire]

When I was growing up in Iowa, we'd have spectacular displays of hundreds and hundreds of fireflies - or as we called them 'lightning bugs' - and this just took me back to way more wonderful and magical time. Thank you!

[@mariananglin]

I wish you would do a version of this on loop for me to fall asleep too. This was my life for 32 years. I miss these sounds every night.

[@azuba3056]

you can use it as loop by yourself, just click the right button of your mouse you will see the option as loop, just click it.

[@adamai2873]

Since I moved to NYC, all I've hear was cars passing by day and night

[@radimsch]

I will work on that! :-)

[@kittyk.klandasions7008]

Can i loop it with my phone? I LOVE how you mixed the Nature sounds with that Beautiful haunting piano song what piano song is that btw? Also can i loop on my phone somehow? Thnx

[@_dont_mind_me]

@@kittyk.klandasions7008 if you click on the three dots in the top right corner one of the options in the menu is loop :)

[@brittmc6392]

This is the most beautiful video I have ever seen. Thank you so much for making this and sharing it.

[@ellapelekai4782]

I grew up in the midwest but I've lived in Colorado for 5 years and tbh I nearly cried watching this. It brought me right back to my childhood home back yard. I felt like I could see every detail and remember endless summer nights I spent with my brother... Thank you

[@mrzold]

I found myself (on a horrible day) missing New York, and missing, in particular, the fireflies. So I did a search and found this. What absolutely gorgeous short film. Everthing about it is perfect. Thanks.

[@lisameredith6745]

I miss upstate NY too. The fireflies and the snow.

[@barbaracataldo566]

Fireflies are a wonderful memory from my childhood. Where I live now in the past few years they've diminished considerably. I miss them.

[@yp24628]

They are the closest thing to magic on this planet

[@AndrewMay-ju8et]

Agreed

[@MountainViewFor2]

Exquisite composition and music. Thank you. It was transporting. Only wish it was longer..

[@beautybless]

Watching fireflies is one of my favourite memories. They use to be all over my house area at night just before rainy season arrived. Sadly they are no more.

[@roseprints9790]

I've always wanted the see fireflies irl. Sadly there's none in California

[@flatearthmill1279]

Theres a whol bunch in ohio maine and Tennessee Florida Georgia and maybe mexico see them by there someetime they are really pretty u wont regret a thing there only out in the summer tho

[@lmjesuschrist7450]

Ya it sux

[@justsomeawesomedude2608]

FlatEarthMill 1 Mexico has an massive amount of fireflies! USA is the one that barely has any fireflies around. I use to live in Tennessee you could only see some fireflies in Smoky mountains and rarely anywhere else.

[@flatearthmill1279]

@@justsomeawesomedude2608 well where i live in USA theres plenty! Idk avout Tennessee but if you go to the midwest THERES SO MANY and very pretty too❤

[@mayram0120]

ikr

[@Leyarna]

Absolutely beautiful video, I will gladly share this. I was just talking to my wife about fireflies when I lived in Georgia and how they amazed me, 20 years later I find myself reliving the same beautiful memories with my wife watching this wonderful video. Thanks

[@cindysanchez7065]

This is like being young again, looking up @ a North Carolina sky! I sure do miss me! :)

[@KathyH-ei2jt]

This video is WONDERFUL ! I live out in the country in West Virginia and they are everywhere and even at 72 I have not lost my sense of wonder at how amazing these are.

[@Jefflantern483]

A fantastic childhood memory of as I see a field full of fireflies at night & a few will fly in the tent & fall asleep to the soothing twinkle of a few fireflies!😇😇

[@jeremyphillips7827]

Beautiful. This video brings back happy childhood memories. Thank you for sharing this.

[@christinea674]

When I was a child in Pa. in the 1950's- 1960's all our backyards were so active, we used to catch them and admire them...I'm still in Pa. and there are so few now. Sad very sad.

[@timeeaeva9560]

This video is not beautiful... It's GORGEOUS! Congratulations!!!!☝️👍👍

[@aamburrito]

This is so beautiful, it reminds me of my childhood growing up in Tennessee ❤️

[@wallys11000]

So very beautiful and magical. Living in California my whole life I've never seen fireflies.

[@BostonBB]

Absolutely wonderful! Love it ♡♡♡

[@claudiocarbone2225]

This brought me to tears ❤nature is so beautiful

[@catarinasousa1894]

Thank you so much for this video! It's so beautiful, so amazingly filmed!!

[@brigitte4482]

Omg...one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a long time...thank you for that...

[@pragawa]

Thank you very much. This took me back to my childhood in Africa.

[@vam9785]

Saw a firefly for the first t8me in my life yesterday! It was absolutely magical! Gorgeous creature

[@briannheinrich4763]

I could watch firelies for hours. They are incredible

[@marilynmatthews3427]

just beautiful...

[@EchosonicaMusica]

Most beautiful thing I've seen in a long long time

[@veeradastoor9726]

Amazing Nature, amazing photography! Thanks for sharing.

[@shariholmes4276]

Beautiful video, and music!

[@gangigirl1]

Nature = Magic

[@sharipeterman]

This is why we love camping at Indian Boundary so much. In our home county, Monroe Co, TN Located in the Cherokee National Forest

[@Doyadance]

how beautiful is nature, god gave us more than what we deserve

[@coldrainynovember]

Fireflies are most beautiful things in nature . the are like magic and am lucky i able to see them every summer in my area :)

[@DoctorFrolicks]

beautiful

[@nalesnikpolaczeq4717]

The beauty magic of Nature 😍✨

[@danceskatehorse]

Absolutely gorgeous! !

[@SamSpadeHawaii]

Absolutely superb! Thank you for sharing !

[@aidanesa]

So beautiful and wonderful nature

[@Enskoennedag]

Amazing photography.

[@paulws81paulws81]

thunderstorm + lightning bugs, A+

[@ReviewPetti]

I’ve been watching this again and again!!

[@Juliemorgana]

I have always wanted to see fireflies. A friend sent me your video so I could at least see them that way. Thanks so much for making the video.

[@Juliemorgana]

Radim Schreiber, I don't have great vision, so I (and others) are probably seeing the fireflies more clearly on your video than we would in real life. That's another part of the gift that you have given us.

[@aldrinaldrin4618]

I remember when I took school a vacation at my cousin's house who lives on a hill, we caught fireflies on that god forsaken place behind their house. It's really scary cause we knew there could be snakes out there still we brought our plastics and caught fireflies in the middle of the night. Once we're done we went back to the house and we've released all the fireflies we caught in a closed room then watch them go all spiral in the middle towards the light bulb. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for us because in our family once you reach a certain age, mostly 14 years old we're gonna need to wear glasses or else we wouldn't see at night at all so such thing wouldn't be possible. I know it's never gonna happen again because aside from our hereditary eye weakness life also gets in the way.

[@eveny119]

Needs to be a bit longer...or do a loop, just label it as so otherwise people will be yelling "that's a loop". Lovely and a bit spooky too.

[@AnatoleBranch]

wow beautiful, magical video and music - I was transported there - thanks so much.

[@koustavghoshryuki]

Very soothing

[@fluffypeanutcat]

A little bit of magic almost like a small step into heaven. Wanted it to play longer.

[@Sapwolf]

I saw my first firefly on the campus of the Univ. of Notre Dame while visiting my Dad during the summer while he was attending a Blaze Pascal seminar and lived in one of the dorms. While sitting on the bus from O'Hare all the way there, I saw the greenest corn plants I ever saw, the Sears Tower, the depressing South Side with the public housing, but what brought tears to my eyes was seeing Gary, IN. I was half my current age, and even before 1990, I was very aware of the massive deindustrialization of America. When Trump used the work "carnage" in his Inaugural Speech, he had it right. Sad but he had it right. Then after traveling and living around the country, I saw....more carnage. It's more important to buy what you need with income you worked for at a higher price as opposed to buying it cheap with a credit card because you can't find a job. Dignity means something to humans. Thanks for posting this. It brightens my night just like that evening at ND. :-)

[@mingusboodle]

Fantastic camera work!

[@rohailnasir2430]

Thank you for this wonderful experience

[@gtmv5921]

Видео передало всю красоту ❤ в жизни это так же красиво как на видео

[@tabthecabbit3354]

I was once told when I was a kid that if you catch a firefly, you could make a wish. And then release the firefly, so that they could carry your wish to heaven.

[@anonymousfarm4703]

Awesome vid

[@aurorafranco3085]

this video is way to short :( I am crying

[@edmundomiranda2839]

what amazing and gorgeous experience.... bring myself to wonderful memories...nice place,perfect music and great job!....greetings from México and thanks for this beautiful video made it with real feel!!!!

[@geogm.840]

Epic!

[@skydancer2109]

Such amazing creatures, thanks!

[@ChayantGonsalves]

Beautiful video Radim! This is many years later but I hope you'll see my question - would you have suggestions of how to effectively film fireflies? While long exposure for photos makes that more feasible, the 180 degree rule puts hard limitations on shutter speed for videos, so I'm hugely impressed by what you've managed to capture. Hoping to see more from you in future, have a good one!

[@KnighteyKnight]

Simply gorgeous. Great work.

[@djs2356]

Great Photography !!!!!

[@Subhrajyoti_Videography]

Mind blowing Video.

[@louiselambert249]

This is so beautiful x

[@Leyarna]

I have also shared to my FB

[@ferdinandhadiwirawan3456]

I miss this little bugs, reminds me of my childhood and my father. But they're extinct ☹️

[@k9carniv0re]

hey guys, can we please stop talking about how "and humans will destroy this and that"? this is a wonderful video, and we should be able to enjoy it without having it overshadowed by how much we all suck. i know, yeah, we do, but let's just relax for a minute, okay?

[@knowledgequestions7293]

This is what I wanted to see..most amazing video

[@johnnysuhhh8210]

love it 💛💛😭

[@sylviakovessy]

Heavenly !

[@KingCharlieBlaze]

A GREAT CAPTURE ❤️

[@koirase]

Fireflies can be seen in other wonderful countries! Please see the Japanese fireflies also uploaded.

[@RishiNigamMusic]

Amazing!!

[@aniumar5964]

Love fireflies!

[@Hailstonepie]

Lovely, thank you.

[@ElijahForPrez]

They're all in heaven now with other beautiful animals and insects. Soon our father will come for us. ❤️

[@gribble590]

well put together video 👍

[@loopfinity]

stunning work!! will it be ok if we use some parts of this video in our upcoming video? you will be credited accordingly ❤️

[@NawelKaw]

And someday this breathtaking thing will be destroyed by humans.

[@LeeFowler]

Nαωel sigh... you mean us humans that are also part of nature? Nature destroying nature?

[@kc9ctc]

Someday the sun destroys all of it...nothing is permanent. It’s all going away. Enjoy it while it’s here.

[@lightningstudios113]

Nαωel yea I got the last firefly on my window and my sister squished it.

[@juvypatriarca9597]

it has been done

[@carolfreeman2962]

@Jon Snow Did you HAVE to ruin it for everyone? The climate has ALWAYS been changing and always will be changing!Man has nothing to do with it. God is in control!Take your foul mouth elsewhere?

[@ekakhairunnisa2148]

During watching this video I can imagine that there is a magical and mystical hidden kingdom right there, many fairies and weird creatures peeking you behind the grass and leaves. #yeahmyweirdimagination 🤧

[@luzandlife9425]

Beautiful

[@nieledaniele9880]

Hi, what lens did you use? Stunning shots in this beautiful video

[@earthyasmr4552]

Its beautiful 😍

[@jermainelindo6944]

summer nights n fireflies sparkles n 🧚‍♂️

[@marianrdiazh1974]

I ADORE THIS WONDERFUL MAGICAL REALITY!! ✨U.U*~FIREFLIES~* ❤ TRUE LOVE IN MY SENSES !!! LOVELY VIDEO!! TXX 4SHARE!! ✨🌞❤️‍🔥🌛✨

[@sometimesithinkimcute]

went to watch this amazing little creatures after reading an article about firefly's extinction :((

[@AnnaNederdal]

Magic

[@evafineart1]

thank you ,amazing video

[@1blindangel1]

AMAZING

[@Spawn3X5]

Summer is best although here they stop coming around end of july

[@kawasakikrr150]

So this is ur awesome work... actually i've watched ur video from another people that share ur video with music. Id Red Panda. It is nice to know who the creator of the video. Nice vid (y)

[@panchovilla3493]

40 years ago they used to b in my city neighborhood ..now they are gone😔 sigh..... .

[@jubaermirza3436]

Nice

[@houdayaqine1166]

just amazing !!

[@jdjones7065]

I would like to use some of this footage on a video I'm making how do I go about getting permission?

[@joeforbroke4443]

What were your settings and equipment for this? I have an idea for a scene involving fireflies and am trying to strategize.

[@pihuroy41]

amazing....