Last night we saw the fireflies for the first time this year. They dart around the back yard from dusk to dark. Tonight I went out back to see if I could get a picture of them.
As I’ve been doing this capture-a-moment-per-day project, I’ve started experimenting with free photo editing software. Picasa is nice because its easy to use, but it doesn’t do much. Last weekend I wanted to try creating an animated gif, so I downloaded gimp. After messing around with it for a while tonight, I figured out how to make an animated gif from a selection of photos. Unfortunately, when I tried to post the animated gif, wordpress didn’t animate it, it just displayed the first frame. So, now I’m going to try out wordpress’s slideshow feature, which displays a slideshow of multiple images embedded in a posting. I think the drawback is that it will take a longer time to load, as the images are full size, as opposed to a streamlined gif file. But I’ll give it a try so you can see my little fireflies flitting around. I hope it works!
Update: Ok, it sort of works. If the delay between frames is too long for your liking, you can mouse over the image, and advance the frames manually by clicking on the arrows that show up. Boy, that was alot of work. I hope you enjoy the fireflies.
Sheila365 