Shot this at 3am using speedlight stacking—each frame lit with a brief, controlled burst of light. Despite what it may look like, this doesn’t blind or harm the insect. Their eyes function very differently from ours. Unlike humans, insects like damselflies have compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (ommatidia). These eyes are incredibly sensitive to motion but not to sharp flashes of light the same way we perceive them. What seems like a burst to us often registers as momentary or ev