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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸
@michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social
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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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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 6d
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:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 10h
Can't I eat in peace without everybody taking my photograph? Harbor Seal trying to get a bite Seattle's Hiram M. Chittenden or Ballard Locks:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 10h
Harbor Seal posing for a photograph Seattle's Hiram M. Chittenden or Ballard Locks:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 10h
Majesty of Flight. Great Blue Heron sailing across Alki Beach: 🪶
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 10h
Majesty of Flight. Great Blue Heron sailing across Alki Beach: 🪶
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 1d
Seattle's only National Park. FUCK the Orange Turd! 😡
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 1d
Little bursts of stored summer sunlight Pike Place Market:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 1d
Buried in buckets of glorious flowers Pike Place Market Arcade:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 1d
Crisp Seattle autumn day, good for browsing the colors and scents of the Pike Place Market Arcade flower market!
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 1d
With (believe it or not) SNOW in the forecast this weekend for the mountains around Seattle, and a decidedly autumn day here in the lowlands, enjoyed my annual Pumpkin Spice Latte this afternoon at Pioneer Square's Zeitgeist Coffee!
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 2d
New on my Substack. Pioneer Square History Walk Stop Number 11 Madame Damnable and the Felker House. If there was one person in Seattle history I could travel back in time to meet, that would be Mary Ann Conklin, Madame Damnable:
Pioneer Square History Walk Stop Number 11 Madame Damnable and the Felker House
If there was one person in Seattle history I could travel back in time to meet, that would be Mary Ann Conklin, Madame Damnable.
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 2d
Magnificent historic street clock on First Avenue at Main Street. Seattle once known as the City of Clocks. In fact city had so many street clocks during 1930s city enacted an ordinance mandating at least 100 feet distance between clocks. At least ten historic clocks survive throughout city today:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 2d
Alki Beach Promenade:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 2d
Raindrops on a lily blossom Alki Beach:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 2d
Washington State Ferry sailing past Duwamish Head into Seattle's Elliott Bay, viewed from Alki Beach:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 3d
More of this beautiful Cooper's Hawk at Alki Beach yesterday: 🪶
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you!
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 3d
Seattle's other volcano, Koma Kulshan (aka Mount Baker) gleaming in the setting sun, towering over West Point Lighthouse:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 3d
Waiting for the Bus West Seattle's Alaska Junction:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 4d
Mine is going to be Karma Dispenser!
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 4d
Yesterday's Harvest Supermoon Rise over Seattle:
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 4d
Cooper's Hawk miffed it can't catch a Steller's jay hiding in a tree at Alki Beach: 🪶
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 4d
Joy is a Waffle Death by Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Kinda Bonus Summer Day in Paradise. Alki Beach in October! 😎
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 5d
New on my Substack. Pioneer Square History Walk Stop Number 10 Capital Brewing Company Building. Once a Cathedral to Beer, now a Cathedral to Books:
Capital Brewing Company Building
Once a Cathedral to Beer, now a Cathedral to Books
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Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 @michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social · 5d
Wildfire smoke infused glow to the Harvest Supermoon rise over Seattle:
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