Andrew Kingston

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

the night is a natural resource, and we have to protect it
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

Mercury over crescent moon

Mercury over crescent moon (1.43 days old, 2.2% illuminated)
#photography #night

The last sentence of the mimesis section is a very cool idea

wood and rock
digital double exposure
#photography

fluid structure
#photography #35mm #Minolta

My favorite bird photo to date. 4 Harlequin Ducks (2 male, 2 female), Great Black-backed Gull, 2 American Herring Gulls in flight. 11/24, #Acadia National Park.
#photography #birding #seabirds

small hours big time stepping out at 0230 to get the measure of the stars very still - very clear massive, furious

11/11/25 - nocturn

abstract photograph with intentional camera movement

Sony a6300
#photography #abstract #ICM

from a hike earlier this year
#photography #hiking

Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, taken over 5 nights and processed in Siril and Pixinsight.

Starless version of the Crescent Nebula which shows the soap bubble a little bit better.

The Crescent Nebula taken over 5 minutes in June and July. This time, I caught a hint of the Soap Bubble! The starless version shows it more clearly. Higher res version on astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/ni99aj

#astronomy #astrophotography #space #Nebula

wave and gull
#photography #birding #birds #seabirds

image of red autumn leaves blurred with intentional camera movement

image of red autumn leaves blurred with intentional camera movement

autumn leaves
#photography #hiking #ICM

Photograph of painting by Díðrikur á Skarvanesi depicting most of the Faroese breeding birds. Painted approximately in 1830. His paintings are now on display in the national museum and were discovered long after his death.

Can I share this curious bit of Faroese art factoid. The first Faroese artist Díðrikur á Skarvanesi died in obscurity, but his illustration of Faroese breeding birds (approx 1830s) is truly unique and (mayb biased) but I think this great skua is particularly beautiful 🌍🧪

#ornithology #teamskua #art

Maine’s Dark Sky | Windows to the Wild YouTube video by New Hampshire PBS

a wonderful little PBS documentary on dark skies in the @appmtnclub.bsky.social's 100-Mile Wilderness, featuring a couple of people I volunteer with at Dark Sky Maine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ybl...

#addBirder

This is amazing, and beautifully illustrated too. I love the genre of storytelling that focuses on the lives of individual animals.

#photography #instantfilm #doubleexposure

I'm drowning in a sea of thinkpieces on AI, but I really liked this one, on how big databases tend to homogenize knowledge, effacing traditional and indigenous ways of thinking. Reminds me of Lyotard's ideas about how the criterion for knowledge in postmodernity becomes efficiency rather than truth.

Semipalmated Plover
#photography #instantfilm #birding #migration

this will be my vibe all winter

#photography #instantfilm

broken telephone pole
#photography

The northern lights with the Pleiades
#photography

Also: journalists, writers, philosophers, and others working at the nature-society interface 👇

a group of vultures is called a "kettle" if it's flying, a "committee" if it's landed, and a"wake" if it's feeding.
#photography #birding

@darkskyintl.bsky.social
#darkskies #discoverthenight #astronomy #philosophy #poetry

I wrote a piece for the Oxford Literary Review's online supplement on the cultural significance of darkness and how our relationship to the night has changed in modern times—from theology and poetry to the Copernican Revolution and the proliferation of light pollution in the contemporary world.

‘A mythical place’: how a Melbourne sewage farm became a haven for 300 species of birds The abundance of birdlife amid the grassy plains, marshlands and 200 lagoons of the Western Treatment Plant rivals Kakadu – and is a magnet for birdwatchers

Sewage plumage
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lived Experience Testimony and Engaged Intellectuals - The OLR Supplement Re-thinks the practice and policy surrounding lived experience testimony, drawing on Foucault and Derrida's activism

From @auralflaneur.bsky.social - what can Foucault's prison activism and Derrida's anti-Apartheid advocacy tell us about lived experience testimony in the fight to abolish modern day slavery? olrsupplement.com/2025/09/19/l...