City lights in the middle ground. Silhouette of the mountains against a darkening sky behind, with Venus, a small point of light, not far above in the center of the image.
Venus setting behind the Rocky Mountains tonight. Good night friends.
getting some practice with the planetarium
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
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
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...
This is amazing, and beautifully illustrated too. I love the genre of storytelling that focuses on the lives of individual animals.
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
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.
