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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 · 26d
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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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.
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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 · 14d
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
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The #BirdOfTheDay request today is herons or ducks. Here's a tufted #duck photo'd in May in St. Stephens Green, #Dublin. I had not seen that species before or since.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Ireland #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Photo of a tufted duck with black and white coloring floating in water.
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Egrets. We have a few. But then again, too few to mention.

Snowy #egret photo'd last month in Ocean City, NJ.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography #JerseyShore #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Profile photo of a snowy egret in a tree.
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Here's a look #inside Bates Hall of the #Boston Public Library. Photo'd Sept. 2024.

#BlueskyArtShow
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
Large library reading room with double green shade lamps on each table.
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Teasel plants during a #quiet morning on the Brickyard Trail in Brighton ( #Rochester ), New York. Oct. 2024.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQuiet #Photography #NaturePhotography #UpstateNY #BlueSkyPhotos #EastCoastKin
Three teasel plants, with back lighting through their filaments.
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Photo-shoot last night ... Law professor, former U.S. attorney, and MSNBC commentator Joyce Vance at the National Press Club. Vance was interviewed by AP law enforcement editor and NPC president Mike Balsamo

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

#Photography #NewsPhotography
Joyce Vance, 23 Oct. 2025 - Technology News & Literature
Law professor, MSNBC commentator, and podcaster Joyce Vance interviewed at the National Press Club by Club president Mike Balsamo. 23 Oct. 2025
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October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM