Ken Britten
LightNews LightNews
banner
kenbritten.bsky.social
Ken Britten
@kenbritten.bsky.social
60 followers 62 following 94 posts
Relentlessly curious nature freak, sailor, Deadhead
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Ken Britten
bryanhansel.com
Sunrise over Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Minnesota
February 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
beautysurroundsyou.com
Wilderness untamed & pure, touching every core of your being, unbridled power, furious gale force winds, churning clouds, horizontal sleet, bitter cold. I wouldn't have it any other way! Yukon, Canada.

#photography #travel #nature #bluesky #landscape #sunset #landscapephotography #naturephotography
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
resistrebelrevolt.net
Today, Minneapolis had their annual Powderhorn Art Sled Rally. A community organized event that this time featured de-Icer sleds and bowling pins named for world leaders.

A very Minnesotan way to protest ICE. 😍🙌🏻
January 18, 2026 at 4:07 AM
kenbritten.bsky.social
The Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica is a great place to be off-grid. Sunny, rainy and steep. This is the control center for the Luna Lodge power system, which can host maybe 30-40 clients at a time. 9 kW solar, 6 kW hydro, and a small battery.
January 17, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
flyinghabu.bsky.social
NGC2335, the Seagull nebula, another ongoing project I’ve been working on for about three weeks. In this case as well, this image was obtained by capturing the radiation emitted in the ionized hydrogen spectrum and partly in oxygen, with about 15 hours of integration time. >>>

🔭
#Astrophotography
January 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
American kestrel male shot from my deck in California
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInFlight #birds
Small falcon in flight, with his wings held diagonally out from his body at the upper left and lower right. His head is gray-blue across the forehead. His face is white with two vertical black stripes, below and behind the black eye ringed in yellow. The area around his gray beak is also yellow. His back is rust-colored with black hatching. His wings are black with white hatching on the far section and gray with black hatching on the near section. His tail is rust-colored on top and black at the tip. The background is blue sky.
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
RIP, Bobby. You were amazing, we will never forget you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOi...
Grateful Dead - Cassidy - 10/31/1980 - Radio City Music Hall
YouTube video by Wolfgang's Grateful Dead
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Took quite a lot of images over the last week so difficult deciding on which to post for #ShareMondays2026 but I just adored the icy Grand Union Canal and golden reflections of the trees :)

#Berkhamsted #abstract
Tree glowing red after sunrise reflected abstractly in a frozen canal. There are some patterns in the ice that look a bit like a bird’s wing.
January 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sophiecarr.bsky.social
A bit of serendipity this morning - didn’t feel safe going out in the car so went to the canal instead and saw this. My comedy moment for the year 🦢🤪

[Vertical video so needs a click]

#sillyswan #iphone15pro
January 3, 2026 at 11:31 AM
kenbritten.bsky.social
Tides coming in a foot above the prediction is kind of a big deal. But for sailors who have run aground, it's a blessing.
Two tidal height curves for the last 48 hours, with the observed height in red consistently above the prediction in blue.
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
jordanhallwx.bsky.social
Never before seen footage‼️

Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
January 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sophiecarr.bsky.social
The thing I love about drone photography is finding patterns that look so much better from above!

Bilton Beach, Durness #Scotland
A white sand beach seen from directly above. There is a line of messy rocks at the bottom - mostly black but some red ones (gneiss) and from them are some channels which are vaguely pink, leading to the sea (not in shot).
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
When dampness and mold create abstract art ... or something. Found some old family 35 mm slides in a wet corner of my shop, where they had been for years. I have no idea what the subject was, and I don't think it matters anymore.
Abstract and colorful pattern, with a central patch of bright oranges and yellows, surrounded by patches of blue and pink. It is all laced through with fine, branching dark-gray lines.
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Ken Britten
pauljwillson.bsky.social
A momentary pause
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Ken Britten
pkilleenphoto.bsky.social
'Dunluce Castle In Golden Light'

Majestic conditions at Dunluce Castle, when the last light of the day illuminated the iconic landmark perched on the edge of the cliff. A dramatic sky above with a half moon as I got extremely lucky.
December 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
kenbritten.bsky.social
This was the present California wanted. We must have been nice. Left: Christmas eve; right Boxing Day.
Two snow depth maps showing the Sierra Nevada range. On the left, early one, there's just faint blue shading, indicating just inches of snow only at the highest elevations. On the right, there are big swaths of dark blue and purple, indicating 4 feet of snow in many places, and considerable snow at lower elevations too.
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! I got you a tanager from Portal, Arizona.
#birds
Summer tanager male standing on a bare branch in profile against a blurred green and gray background. He's bright red, with a black eye and a gray beak.
December 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
My favorite of Nature's best science shots of the year.
A volcano in Chile captured at twilight, with a dark double ring cloud at its peak, which is illuminated from the center by the bright orange-red glow of an eruption.
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Blue-billed white tern on Suwarrow in the Cook Islands for Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar. One of my favorite birds in the world.
#Flyday #birds
All-white bird in flight, shown in quarter profile from underneath, with its wings spread to the side, against blue sky. Its eye is black. The base of the bill is dark gray-blue, and the end is black.
December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
Already in a doctor's office near you. Scary, since it fails the specialty boards, according to external testing. I checked against my own area of expertise, and it wrote naive summaries like an enthusiastic undergrad would. How would we know if our doctors are using it in our care? We wouldn't.
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
Incoming Pacific system caught in the act of pushing out the tule fog in the Central Valley. Good riddance, I say! The view is looking SE over the bottom of the Berryessa Gap, where Putah Creek breaks out of the Coast Range. The weather station in view is KCAWINTE11 on Weather Underground.
Green, hilly landscape with striking clouds. There's a well-lit bank of low clouds or fog in the lower distance, and higher clouds coming overhead from the west, behind the view.
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
sandra-aamodt.bsky.social
Kingfishers were my nemesis bird for a long time. Then I went to South Africa and captured several, including this woodland kingfisher dangling a scorpion in the dusk at Sabi Sand Reserve. (I still don't have a decent belted kingfisher from home, working on it.)
#BirdOfTheDay #AlansNemesis #birds
Turquoise bird with black eye, wing patches, and tail underside, standing in profile behind a thick branch with a scorpion hanging upside down from its bright orange beak. Its chest and belly are white. The background is blurred dark gray-green with a bright patch in the upper left, just above the bird.
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
kenbritten.bsky.social
More good news that I had vaguely known about, but had not seen the numbers for. This is the ultimate reason the California power grid has so many batteries. The future is coming fast, and it looks like its speed has room to increase.
A time series plot of the average world price of lithium-ion batteries from 2014 to 2025. It drops from almost $300/kWh to about $60, and the slope is still negative.
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Reposted by Ken Britten
davidho.bsky.social
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
kingtides.bsky.social California King Tides Project @kingtides.bsky.social · Dec 4
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
See from above, water covers an off-ramp of highway 101 and a parking lot next to the highway and bikepath.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reposted by Ken Britten
pkilleenphoto.bsky.social
'Here Comes The Sun'

An early start for sunrise somewhere just 30 minutes from my home. A location that local photographers frequently visit to photograph that famous tree.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM