Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸
@michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social
PhDs History & Archaeology. Writer. Publisher BlueParrotBooks.com. Seattle Beach Bum with a Camera. If you like my photos buy my books. Find all my stuff on my Substack blog: https://michaelostrogorsky.substack.com/
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If you like my pics, buy my books. Life Is A Beach: a Photographic Rambling Around West Seattle. 11 x 8-1/2 landscape format 80 pound gloss paper stock soft cover with 95 full page color plates. Books available from West Seattle's Pegasus Book Exchange, and Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill:
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing out of Seattle below Her Majesty Tahoma bound for Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula:
February 10, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing out of Seattle below Her Majesty Tahoma bound for Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula:
Our other volcano, Koma Kulshan (aka Mount Baker) serving as a backdrop to Seattle's West Point Lighthouse:
February 10, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Our other volcano, Koma Kulshan (aka Mount Baker) serving as a backdrop to Seattle's West Point Lighthouse:
Portrait of an Alki Beach Crow: 🪶
February 10, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Portrait of an Alki Beach Crow: 🪶
SEA. . . !
February 9, 2026 at 12:19 AM
SEA. . . !
Sailing Puget Sound aboard the Washington State Ferry Tacoma:
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Sailing Puget Sound aboard the Washington State Ferry Tacoma:
Sailing Puget Sound aboard the Washington State Ferry Tacoma:
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Sailing Puget Sound aboard the Washington State Ferry Tacoma:
Her Majesty Tahoma yesterday afternoon sporting her snappy lenticular cap, towering over West Seattle's Alki Point Lighthouse:
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Her Majesty Tahoma yesterday afternoon sporting her snappy lenticular cap, towering over West Seattle's Alki Point Lighthouse:
No matter how many times I've walked around before, always discovering something old that is new to me. Like this lone terracotta lion grotesque on the 1902 Capital Brewing Company building in Pioneer Square:
February 8, 2026 at 5:27 AM
No matter how many times I've walked around before, always discovering something old that is new to me. Like this lone terracotta lion grotesque on the 1902 Capital Brewing Company building in Pioneer Square:
The Gods are smiling on Seattle. Yet another glorious Puget Sound sunset on this last #BlueFriday of the football season!
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 AM
The Gods are smiling on Seattle. Yet another glorious Puget Sound sunset on this last #BlueFriday of the football season!
12s flags flying around Seattle today for the last Blue Friday of the football season:
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 AM
12s flags flying around Seattle today for the last Blue Friday of the football season:
One more glorious 60+ degree Spring day in Paradise. In February! Perfect for an almond croissant and pain au chocolat at Pâtisserie Mirabelle in the historic Lowman and Hanford building at Pioneer Square! 😋😎
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 AM
One more glorious 60+ degree Spring day in Paradise. In February! Perfect for an almond croissant and pain au chocolat at Pâtisserie Mirabelle in the historic Lowman and Hanford building at Pioneer Square! 😋😎
Another reason why Commuter Comforts at the Winslow ferry terminal on Bainbridge Island is one of my top two favorite coffee shops in Puget Sound! Besides their great coffee and people:
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Another reason why Commuter Comforts at the Winslow ferry terminal on Bainbridge Island is one of my top two favorite coffee shops in Puget Sound! Besides their great coffee and people:
View from my *Other* office today. Just another glorious 60+ degree Iced Sparking Espresso Kinda Spring Day in Paradise. In February! 😎🧋⛴️🗻
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 AM
View from my *Other* office today. Just another glorious 60+ degree Iced Sparking Espresso Kinda Spring Day in Paradise. In February! 😎🧋⛴️🗻
Parking the USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) at Coast Guard Base Seattle this afternoon. The size of a frigate, the 418 foot Waesche is the Coast Guard's largest patrol cutter class, and the second cutter of its class:
February 6, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Parking the USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) at Coast Guard Base Seattle this afternoon. The size of a frigate, the 418 foot Waesche is the Coast Guard's largest patrol cutter class, and the second cutter of its class:
Tugboat Sun Spirit, operated by Seattle's Centerline Logistics Corporation, but based in Portland, pushing the 289 foot tank barge Dale Frank Jr off Alki Beach below Mount Constance:
February 5, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Tugboat Sun Spirit, operated by Seattle's Centerline Logistics Corporation, but based in Portland, pushing the 289 foot tank barge Dale Frank Jr off Alki Beach below Mount Constance:
Portrait of an Alki Beach Crow: 🪶
February 5, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Portrait of an Alki Beach Crow: 🪶
Glorious Iced Sparkling Espresso Kinda Spring Day at Alki Beach. SIXTY-FIVE degrees on my home thermometer here in West Seattle this afternoon. In February! 😎🧋
February 5, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Glorious Iced Sparkling Espresso Kinda Spring Day at Alki Beach. SIXTY-FIVE degrees on my home thermometer here in West Seattle this afternoon. In February! 😎🧋
When the mountains look more like July than January (this from last week):
February 4, 2026 at 5:39 AM
When the mountains look more like July than January (this from last week):
Puget Sound Dreaming (of Summer): 😎
February 4, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Puget Sound Dreaming (of Summer): 😎
Pike Place Market is a special place after dark and the crowd disappears:
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Pike Place Market is a special place after dark and the crowd disappears:
Love the colors of the neon signs at Pike Place Market in the rain after dark!
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Love the colors of the neon signs at Pike Place Market in the rain after dark!
The warm glow of the PUBLIC MARKET neon sign at Pike Place Market after dark:
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 AM
The warm glow of the PUBLIC MARKET neon sign at Pike Place Market after dark:
If you like my pics, buy my books. Life Is A Beach: a Photographic Rambling Around West Seattle. 11 x 8-1/2 landscape format 80 pound gloss paper stock soft cover with 95 full page color plates. Books available from West Seattle's Pegasus Book Exchange, and Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill:
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM
If you like my pics, buy my books. Life Is A Beach: a Photographic Rambling Around West Seattle. 11 x 8-1/2 landscape format 80 pound gloss paper stock soft cover with 95 full page color plates. Books available from West Seattle's Pegasus Book Exchange, and Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill:
King County Water Taxi Doc Maynard speeding back to Seattle from Vashon Island below The Brothers peaks of the Olympic Mountains off Alki Beach:
February 2, 2026 at 5:36 AM
King County Water Taxi Doc Maynard speeding back to Seattle from Vashon Island below The Brothers peaks of the Olympic Mountains off Alki Beach:
Mounts (left to right) Ellinor, Washington, and Pershing viewed from Alki Beach:
February 2, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Mounts (left to right) Ellinor, Washington, and Pershing viewed from Alki Beach: