Then, Julie showed me her photo on her iPhone…
I took just one glance at it and I knew immediately that I had been in the wrong spot all this time!
Her smart phone photo definitely showed that she managed to catch the firefall as I had envisioned what it was supposed to be. She didn’t use a tripod and she didn’t do any color saturation with long exposure photos. She just had a point-and-shoot, and she managed to catch the scene far better than how I had it despite my tripod and DSLR capabilities.
I had this sinking feeling that I had been cursed or something…