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Alan Kotok
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#Reporter, #publisher, #photographer, #entrepreneur. CEO, Technology News and Literature: technewslit.com. Photography chair, National Press Club in DC. Member, Natl Press Photog Assn: https://nppa.org/member-profile/technewslit #BillsMafia #IowaHawkeyes
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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · Oct 15
Hope I'm not too late for #PortfolioDay. Alan here from #WashingtonDC with my collection at the #Alamy photo agency: spot #news, #event, #wildlife, #lifestyle, and #business #photography

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National Guard troops outside Union Station in Washington, D.C. Aug. 2025. Filmmaker Ken Burns at the National Press Club, Nov. 2024. Alligator in a Florida swamp, Apr. 2025. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) speaking at Center for American Progress. Mar. 2025.
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You want #swans? I'll give you swans, two of them, photo'd in Cape May, NJ in Nov. 2024.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
Two swans floating on a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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New post on TechNewsLit Explores: Big time sports now has big-time betting problems, with alleged mob ties to college athletes. Who would have seen that coming, right?

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I photo'd an interview with NCAA president Charlie Baker in July.
College sports now has big-time betting problems
NCAA president Charlie Baker warned about sports betting influencing college sports in his interview at the National Press Club in Ju...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Latest photo-shoot: Voice of America staff in lawsuit against Agency for Global Media at National Press Club, 12 Nov. 2025. Shown here: Plaintiffs (R-L) Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper.

More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Pre...

#Photography #NewsPhotography
Photo of three women from VOA suing Agency for Global Media, one holding a microphone and speaking.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This swan photo'd in Sept 2025 in Cape May, NJ is leaving a wake, which implies #paddling away underwater, and thus is today's #BirdOfTheDay.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#CapeMay #JerseyShore
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Phhoto of one white swan paddling along on a pond.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This northern cardinal struts his stuff as one of the #BirdsOnTheGround and #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd Nov. 2024 in Cape May, N.J.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#CapeMay #JerseyShore #EastCoastKin
Male northern cardinal walking on the ground with twigs and sand.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Here's an #EastCoastKin double-dip: a common starling, my #least photo'd #BirdOfTheDay on a tree under a cloudless sky for #BlueSkyMonday. Shot Jan. 2025 in Falls Church, #Virginia.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #CoolPix #LightroomClassic
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
A front-view photo of a common starling sitting on a bare tree under a cloudless sky.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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During a shoot yesterday morning of the Austin Tice 5K -- photos here -- technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Pre... -- I heard #bagpipes, found a group on Freedom Plaza practicing for today's Veterans Day parade, and got this photo.

#Photography #WashingtonDC #StreetPhotography
Photo of a bagpiper group in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Capitol in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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For #Stunday, here's a great blue heron photo'd this week at Huntley Meadows Park, a #wetlands #wildlife sanctuary in Groveton, Va.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Photo of a great blue heron standing on a log in a pond with vegetation floating in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Thank you Zach. You guys did great.
zachccohen.bsky.social Zach C. Cohen @zachccohen.bsky.social · 6d
We showed up for Austin Tice today, because we will not rest until we #BringAustinHome.

So great seeing everyone at the #RunForAustin 5K at the National Press Club.

Kudos to the @pfc-npc.bsky.social for organizing such an important event. (Photos courtesy of @technewslit.bsky.social)
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This #BirdOfTheDay is a mallard duck as it #TakesOff from Sparrow Pond along Four Mile Run in #Arlington, #Virginia. Photo'd May 2025.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Photo of a mallard duck flapping its wings as it takes off from a pond.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In May at St. Stephen's Green in #Dublin, we saw three #ducks #fighting over ducklings, which was unsettling to watch. Not all #NaturePhotography is pretty.

#Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Ireland
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
Two male mallard ducks and one female duck fighting in a pond.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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It may be #LunchTime for this osprey, but he's coming home with a family pack. Photo'd at Cape May, N.J. in June 2024.

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography
#CapeMay #JerseyShore #Nikon #DSLR
#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Side-view photo of an osprey flying with wings extended and a fish in its claws.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Ready for your #CloseUp white ibis. Photo'd Sept. 2025 in Ocean City, N.J.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited
#Nikon #DSLR #Lightroom #LightroomClassic #JerseyShore
Close-up photo of a white ibis with long beak flapping its wings.
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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If you scratch that moss, you'll find a rock under there holding up this American oystercatcher. Photo'd June 2024 in Cape May, NJ.

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdOnARock
#Photography #NaturePhotography
#Bird #CapeMay #JerseyShore
#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
American oystercatcher in profile standing on a rock covered in moss, with the ocean in background.
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Photo-shoot yesterday: #FederalReserve governor Lisa Cook, at the #Brookings Institution. Almost the entire discussion dealt with #economics, and not Trump's attempt to fire her from the Fed Board of Governors.

More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio...

#Photography #NewsPhotography
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook behind a lectern speaking at the Brookings Institution, 3 Nov. 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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For #Stunday, here's street #photography, archeology-style: The main street in #Italica, an ancient Roman city and archeological site near #Seville, #Spain. Photo'd Nov. 2023.

#StreetPhotography #Nikon #DSLR #AdobeLightroomClassic #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
Ancient Roman tree-lined street with large paving stones.
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Re-upping this post from a few days ago. #MLB #WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays
technewslit.bsky.social Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 18d
Home runs get all of the attention, but defense and base running make #baseball exciting. #MLB #WorldSeries.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #Autumn. Here's the Dalecarlia tunnel under MacArthur Blvd on the DC-Maryland border. Freight train track bed, now a hiking/biking trail. Photo'd Nov. 2024.

#Photography #Nikon #WashingtonDC #BethesdaMD #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Pedestrian-bicycle traffic tunnel with red autumn leaves on tress in the foreground.
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For today's #Scape photo, here's a Cape May, NJ #seascape with a solitary gull, from Nov. 2024.

#Photography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #JerseyShore #CapeMay #Nikon #DSLR #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
Black-and-white photo of a lone seagull soaring over an empty ocean.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay, this red-shouldered hawk was partially #hidden when photo'd in Jan. 2025 at Huntley Meadows Park in Groveton, #Virginia.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Red-shouldered hawk in a tree, partially obscured by branches.
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay request is for #OddAngle shots. Here's a #grackle looking out over the National Mall from a perch above the U.S. Botanical Garden in April 2025.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #WashingtonDC #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Photo of a grackle on top of a monument.
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Perhaps the last place you'd expect to see a stain-glass window is in a subway station, but here's one in the Novoslobodskaya Metro station in #Moscow, photo'd July 2019.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #Russia #WindowsOnWednesday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
Two people standing by a complex stain-glass window in a Moscow metro station.
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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In this game a pair wins. The #BirdOfTheDay today calls for a pair of the same bird species in the shot. Here are two goldfinches chowing down on our feeder in April 2022.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#TwosDay #DailyDouble
#Arlington #Virginia
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Two goldfinches eating seeds from a bird feeder.
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Home runs get all of the attention, but defense and base running make #baseball exciting. #MLB #WorldSeries.
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM