>> Magic can be found on a warm summer night in Iowa
You can find it in your own front yard.
>> As a kid you captured them in your front yard and watched the
imaginic as you fell asleep.
>> We met a man who captured fire flies but he doesn't use a
glass car his photographs show the magic of bio luminescent
year round.
Worked as a photographer and videographer.
The company creates a variety of products that allows people to
enjoy the outdoors even when limited by an in door
environment.
>> This creates illusions of nature and we build sky ceilings
and virtual windows which are portals into the nature.
So we record natural scenes and then we display in a healthcare
environment primarily.
Especially rooms where they don't have windows.
>> The photographs or videos that are taken are framed in
skylights or windows and illuminated from behind.
The scene could be anything from a mountain stream to an ocean
shoreline.
As you gaze all the virtual window an audio track adds to
the illusion.
>> They have made studies where these virtual windows and
skylights, they directly see and there are color rays and there
are direct benefits.
That's what we do.
>> His work takes him to beautiful places all over the
world.
One of the places is only a short bike ride from where he
lives.
Day turns to night to try and capture with his camera the
magic of bio luminescent in fireflies.
It's from photographing other insects while a student in
college.
>> As a student, I didn't have the resources and time to
travel, so being able to go in the backyard behind school in
the flower field and find this incredible life that is
happening right there.
And then see it through the camera lens and capture it and
share it and share it with other people.
That was exciting, it was real exciting.
So the fireflies, it was kind of the extension of my photographic
fashion.
>> He drew up in the Czech Republic.
He says he only remembers seeing fire flies twice as a child.
>> Back in the Czech Republic, there are very few fireflies.
It's very rare to see them.
When I came to the united states to Iowa and there was
illuminated with flashing lights, it was sort of amazing.
It's magical.
>> When shooting fire flies, are he starts in the evening when
they are just starting to come out and there's still enough
light to be able to focus on a single firefly.
Once it gets too dark to see and exposure times become longer, he
concentrates on capturing communities of fire flies.
>> I am exposing lone enough to see the grass.
When I'm doing that in a long exposure the fireflies are
flashing and every time there's a flash it gets imprinted on to
the digital chip of the camera.
In the end the result is more fireflies than one can see at
one moment.
>> Other than increasing his exposure time, he doesn't
manipulate the pictures he takes.
He says he prefers to preserve the moment the way nature did
it.
>> I'm all about the visual aesthetics and the beauty, you
know.
I like to capture the beauty.
That's in my heart.
I love that.
I'm not a scientist.
>> It is, however, the science of bio luminescent that makes
fire flies seem so magical.
>> My favorite animals in the world are fireflies.
I think they're the most fascinating things to have ever
evolved in the living world are flight and bio luminescent the
ability of organisms to create their own lives.
In fireflies we see an animal that's evolved slowly.
>> A research associate at Iowa state university whose expertise
is mosquitoes.
However, his passion is fireflies.
>> There are probably more species than what you think.
There are actually 150 to 200 species in the united states.
We've probably come across a handful every summer here in
awas.
This happens to be something known as a the piralis firefly
or big dipper firefly because of the flight.
>> The by owe luminescent and firefly serves two purposes.
The first is to warn predators they are poisonous and inedible
and the second is to find a mate.
>> You have to realize when a firefly flashes, it communicates
at least three pieces of information, its species, its
sex and its exact location.
And those three things are really all you need to be able
to find a mate.
>> Fireflies only bring the magic of bio luminescent to Iowa
for a few short hours each night during the summer.
It could be why people fine them so interesting.
>> I don't think I can ever become tired of watching these
things at night.
They are one of the true wonders of the natural world, not only
biologically but also artistically.