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

11/11/25 - nocturn

Sony a6300 #photography #abstract #ICM

from a hike earlier this year #photography #hiking

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

autumn leaves #photography #hiking #ICM

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...

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

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

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.

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

at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, ME

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

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

🧵 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

July 5 - 6 is World Firefly Day! Like a lot of insects fireflies are threatened by our actions. 🧪🐡Check out fireflyersinternational.net to find out how you can help gather data on these magical animals & help scientists track their populations. My #linocut print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis,

3.2-second exposure of lights reflected in water, looks like mountains Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 #photography #ICM

Interesting stuff. I wonder what a similar study might show with regard to how artificial lighting practices driven by social and economic demands in urban areas have affected nocturnal evolutionary trends over the last century or two.

The solar eclipse of 1869, photographed by Henry Morton and published in the first ever edition of Nature. #history #historyofastronomy #photography #space

Yang Hui He speculated that AI might come to act like a math-oracle, but mathematicians would still be needed to figure out which statements the "oracle" proclaimed were actually important -- and explain that to people too.

This 2023 article opens by citing Henry W. Longfellow: "There is no light in earth or heaven / But the cold light of stars." Longfellow's nights in 19th-century Boston would have been full of stars, but now many of them are disappearing. @darkskyintl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Finally got my workspace up and running in the new house! Making some test prints with the new setup. #cyanotype #joshuatree #altprocess

Did something just hit Saturn? Possibly! 🔭 earthsky.org/space/did-sp...

some pink moss at Acadia National Park Sony a6300, Samyang 12mm f/2, instax film #photography #instantfilm #hiking #nationalparks

#BlueSkyArtShow #sideways Up the side of the mountain at the Bristlecone Pine Forest in CA #photography #travelphotography #largeformat 4x5 Ektachrome #california #landscapephotography

Dragons (Wyrm) Head #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #polaroid i-2 ##instantphotography #Rhossili #cutuppolaroid #walk #polaroiditype #blackandwhitephotography www.visitwales.com/attraction/h...

one third of humanity can't see the Milky Way www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Sony a6300, Samyang 12mm f/2.0 #photography #astrophotography #savethenight #darksky

"Last of the Trees". An image from my "Film is Dead" zine and previous photo exhibit in NYC. "Film is Dead" was (and still is) all about making images with fifty or sixty year old film. In the last few years, I've somehow managed to grow older than the film. 😉 #filmphotography #expiredfilm

Polaroid emulsion decay #instantfilm #polaroid #photography

Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, instax film #photography #landscapes #instantfilm

Some old photo papers are super extra, like they've been waiting a lifetime to say something and, called upon at last, combust with a century's worth of heat. Lith-developed chemigram, brome grass on Kodak Azo Grade A, 5" x 7", expired 1928 #chemigram #alternativeprocess #experimentaldarkroom