Assistant professor in the humanities, photographer, dark-sky conservationist. Researching the aesthetics of the night. Based in Maine. Opinions my own. andrewkingston.name flickr.com/photos/201528723@N08https://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mlh4czd6ic2lconnection/division #photography #film #Minolta09 May 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlh4czd6ic2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mgzvyhidzs2igetting some practice with the planetarium14 Mar 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzvyhidzs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mggvqkxdas2jthe night is a natural resource, and we have to protect it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYfRNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81MTQ3NzE1NjkyMjgwNjEAAR4Ug72V3aSvSkmOzYgSTmVH8wbE6wFB5WUTRu3MFBbkxcceKtdspC4RS62k4g_aem_9kQl5p5eOxE6CC8doxKT5g07 Mar 2026 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggvqkxdas2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mggtqqntq22yMercury over crescent moon (1.43 days old, 2.2% illuminated) #photography #night07 Mar 2026 03:04 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggtqqntq22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mejdihe7fk2ewood and rock digital double exposure #photography10 Feb 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejdihe7fk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mdbybs7j4c2nfluid structure #photography #35mm #Minolta26 Jan 2026 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbybs7j4c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3mbfn2i45mk2pMy 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 #seabirds02 Jan 2026 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbfn2i45mk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m46mnucvls2fautumn leaves #photography #hiking #ICM27 Oct 2025 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46mnucvls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m44l3z4f2k2ya 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yblG1gB-VY26 Oct 2025 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m44l3z4f2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m3yg33bhzc2v#addBirder25 Oct 2025 03:10 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3yg33bhzc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m3vucscqds2dThis is amazing, and beautifully illustrated too. I love the genre of storytelling that focuses on the lives of individual animals. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Oct 2025 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3vucscqds2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m3a6ruqg2s25I'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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Oct 2025 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3a6ruqg2s25https://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m33ezwi2rc2tthis will be my vibe all winter [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33ezwi2rc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3m33agdh5vs2h#photography #instantfilm13 Oct 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33agdh5vs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lzzi27hkys2qbroken telephone pole #photography30 Sep 2025 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzzi27hkys2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lzlkwbi2us2sI 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2025 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlkwbi2us2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lzactuhn722jdigital double negative on instax film #photography #instantfilm20 Sep 2025 02:18 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzactuhn722jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lwi5uvk4rs2dcollage #photography16 Aug 2025 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwi5uvk4rs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lw53tifa5s22The 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 https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/announcements/surry-nonprofit-presents-starry-skies-award-to-bowdoin-college/article_5ba4a819-1254-4990-8488-6f78c72aadec.html11 Aug 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw53tifa5s22https://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lv6v7tsfdk2yin Acadia National Park Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, instax film #photography #instantfilm #hiking #nationalparks30 Jul 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv6v7tsfdk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3lugpoppg7s24rocks, trees, #ICM lights a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film scan, cropped #photography #abstract #instantfilm21 Jul 2025 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lugpoppg7s24https://bsky.app/profile/andrewkingstons.bsky.social/post/3ltxstd2myc27ghost trees Sony a6300, TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4, digital double exposure, instax film #photography #nature #instantfilm15 Jul 2025 02:04 +0000at://did:plc:5kw6267oypdacfngma32nriy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltxstd2myc27