A campfire beside the fireflies

Seen here in the midst of being completed are the campfire and firefly lighting effects scenes. To the right, the campfire was made from thick fiber optic material carved into flame shapes and surrounded by stumpy fibers for coals. The brown area to the upper left is the field of fireflies. Fiber optics were painted dark green and inserted into a sheet of foam carpet padding. Looking like the stems of brambles, these fibers were then covered with ground foam webbing to finish the field. The effect of both the campfire and the fireflies was actually better than I had expected.

Image specs: This is a scan of a 4x6 color print taken with a 35mm camera of unknown type. The negative is long gone.

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