@CKaster

Chief Photographer for @AP find me on insta @ckaster

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Joined June 2009
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@peterbakernyt23 Jun 2025
A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.
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@borenbears@borenbears23 Jun 2025
Crushing it. What do you do with 4,000 hailstones that you collect while chasing storms? Crush 'em, Slice 'em, Study 'em & Eat 'em w/@BrittanyKPeters @CKaster apnews.com/article/hail-stor…

Crushing it. What do you do with 4,000 hailstones that you collect while chasing storms

Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science.

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@borenbears@borenbears4 Jun 2025
Come join @AP, @CKaster, @BrittanyKPeters and scientists as we drive into hail storms to better understand the underappreciated weather extreme that causes $10 billion a year in US damages apnews.com/article/hailstorm…

Storm chasers drive into extreme weather to study hail that causes billions in annual damage

A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers.

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@borenbears@borenbears12 Jun 2025
Ping. Ping. Ping. AP takes you into the heart of a hailstorm with storm-chasing scientists to find out how better to forecast & reduce the annual $10B in damage. Join me, @BrittanyKPeters & @CKaster inside a Texas hailstorm. Hear it. See it. Feel it. apnews.com/article/storm-cha…

Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science

A team of about 60 researchers are spending six weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may eventually help better forecast an underappreciated...

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Carolyn Kaster retweeted
@borenbears@borenbears17 Jun 2025
Replying to @RCowley185R @BrittanyKPeters @CKaster
silly man. We were there with 60+ scientists, who we talked with. We have video (below), photos, gas & hotel receipts. It's plain foolhardy and ignorant to say it's lies. What kind of reality do you live in? So sad. Bye.
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Jay Cohen@jcohenap19 Feb 2025
Putting this article to good use while I do my laundry today. Thanks to @anthonyted for the fun idea and edit, @Jake_Seiner for his help, and the great Carolyn Kaster on the photos. apnews.com/article/laundry-t…
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Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride heads to her debut in Congress, hoping for a touch of grace. AP Photos by Carolyn Kaster apnews.com/article/sarah-mcb…
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@AP31 Dec 2024
Despite brutal welcome, Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly trans member of Congress apnews.com/article/sarah-mcb…

Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride heads to her debut in Congress, hoping for a touch of grace

U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Jan. 3.

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David Crary@CraryAP31 Dec 2024
Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride heads to her debut in Congress, hoping for a touch of grace (by @AP’’s ⁦@tifflstanley⁩ with photos by ⁦@CKaster⁩ and video by ⁦@JKayWardarski⁩ ) apnews.com/article/sarah-mcb…
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This is not a feel-good story, as climate change is one of several factors negatively impacting fireflies. But these photos by Carolyn Kaster are so spectacular that seeing them make spark feel-good feelings. apnews.com/article/fireflies…

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

Fireflies once seemed plentiful and cool, easy to catch and watch, and they served as an introduction to the world of nature around us.

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The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone apnews.com/article/fireflies…

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

Fireflies once seemed plentiful and cool, easy to catch and watch, and they served as an introduction to the world of nature around us.

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Congratulations to Kyle Almond, Carolyn Kaster, Austin Steele, Will Lanzoni and Brett Roegiers for "Drag performers are shining deep in coal country," the winner of our Excellence in Nonbinary and Gender Nonconforming Coverage Award!
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@borenbears@borenbears2 Jul 2024
Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s . Melting at the rate producing 50,000 gallons of water per second. apnews.com/article/glacier-i…

Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating.

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Nicole Frugé@PhotoFruge23 Jun 2024
"This project began when I came across MLK Jr. Way at West Grand Avenue in Oakland. I saw an encampment that included people who looked like me. I wondered what King would think about seeing Black people sleeping in tents on that street." -@YOSHIFOTO /@sfchronicle
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@AP19 Jun 2024
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus apnews.com/article/cicadas-z…

Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus

With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough.

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@borenbears@borenbears17 Jun 2024
So @CKaster and I went cicada-chasing in the Midwest. C'mon along with us in a tour of cicada chaos using all (or most) of our senses.
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@AP17 Jun 2024
The great cicada emergence of 2024 is underway in the Midwest. This is what these bugs look, sound, smell, feel and taste like.
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@borenbears@borenbears14 Jun 2024
Cicada invasion. Two stories from a cicada-chasing trip I did with @CKaster & video w/ Melissa Perez Winder. And there's more after this. What it's like in the epicenter: apnews.com/article/cicada-in… The Illinoise: apnews.com/article/cicada-in… Video explainer: youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3Jot4P…

Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying in the American Midwest. Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people’s shirts, hats and even faces. They’re...

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@borenbears@borenbears25 May 2024
Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature's artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in bugs. Some may think cicadas are awful, but artists, scientists are awe inspired. A must-see bug photo gallery by @CKaster apnews.com/article/cicadas-b…

Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature's artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in bugs.

With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty — at least in the eyes of some beholders.

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