#Starry Light

[happyheidi]

Starry starry night 💫

[allura-raine]

[maureen2musings]

thomaswinge_photos

[snowdin-stims]

💫 | source

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[swedishlandscapes]

The aurora season sure started with a bang this year! It was so much going on in the sky that I didnt know where to point my camera.

[futurebird]

The more I learn about light pollution harms insects, the more I want to try to help... do something about it. But I live in NYC. It feels like an impossible ask. A whole city devoted to making the most light pollution possible.

I strongly suspect that we'd see a greater variety of wildlife if we could dim the light a little.

Just using colors like red light can help. So can dark hours and motion sensors. What if one day, as a treat, every New Yorker got to see the milky way?

Most people doing light pollution activism are working in places like national parks & deep in the country, places that are almost dark, where the lights are encroaching especially as the cost of very bright LEDs keeps falling: companies and municipalities say "why not? what's the harm?"

The harm is vast. So many creatures need the night to live. Maybe humans need it too. We do, at least, need those creatures.

I care about insects most. But if you don't consider: no bugs, no song birds.

Is reducing light pollution in a big city a hopeless cause? Is it better to focus on those once perfectly dark places being lit up?

One positive of making light pollution an issue in a big city is how it would raise awareness. Imagine if, in the small hours of the night the lights slowly shifted red. Lights with motion sensors that slowly gutter out. You can see NYC on the horizon glowing like a bomb went off for miles, that glow could dim a bit, give the stars a chance to shine.

[huariqueje]

Gods Torches I - Kathrin Rank , 2021.

German, b.1967 -

Oil on canvas, 120 x 170 cm.

[poseidonsarmoury]

[happyheidi]

𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚

[allura-raine]

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[jaybirdiestatic]

the lore base of my OC's

[jentlemahae]

MARK LEE / MBC INTERVIEW (240330)

[jinjjayo]

forever playlist: MAMAMOO - STARRY NIGHT (2018)