Andrew Kingston

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

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

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...

a Long-tailed Duck sitting on a rock surrounded by water

a Long-tailed Duck sitting on a rock surrounded by water

a Long-tailed Duck standing and flapping its wings on a rock surrounded by water

a Long-tailed Duck standing and flapping its wings on a rock surrounded by water

Loved this little Long-tailed Duck, on a solo adventure like me 🪶 #seabirds #photography

#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

Good morning everyone. Today, in "One day, one paper", US coastal radar shows offshore bird migration is 13-20% lower and more concentrated (fewer peak nights) than terrestrial migration. These patterns enable dynamic conservation, like targeted wind turbine curtailment, to mitigate collision risk 🌎

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/...

at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, ME

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...

digital double negative on instax film
#photography #instantfilm

collage
#photography

Surry nonprofit presents Starry Skies Award to Bowdoin College BRUNSWICK — Dark Sky Maine, a Surry-based nonprofit, recently gave Bowdoin College its Starry Skies Award for the responsible lighting design of its athletic fields.

The non-profit I work with recently recognized Bowdoin College for installing DarkSky-approved lighting on their athletic fields. I hope other colleges follow suit!
#darksky #savethenight
www.ellsworthamerican.com/announcement...

in Acadia National Park
Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, instax film
#photography #instantfilm #hiking #nationalparks

rocks, trees, #ICM lights
a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film scan, cropped
#photography #abstract #instantfilm

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On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.

With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants

🔭 🧪 #cosmology

ghost trees
Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film
#photography #nature #instantfilm

Sony a6300, Samyang 12mm f/2, instax film
#photography #instantfilm