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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 · 20d

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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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 3d

Re-upping this post from a few days ago. #MLB #WorldSeries #Dodgers #BlueJays

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 8d

Home runs get all of the attention, but defense and base running make #baseball exciting. #MLB #WorldSeries.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Elizabeth. I used a long lens to get that shot, really.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 4d

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 8d

Home runs get all of the attention, but defense and base running make #baseball exciting. #MLB #WorldSeries.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 10d

I ran in 1998. Still have my finisher's medal.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 11d

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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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 11d

Television is fleeting, but YouTube is forever.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 12d

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #thinking, and this American oystercatcher is thinking ... probably about lunch. Photo'd June 2024 in Cape May, NJ.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #JerseyShore #CapeMay #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

American oystercatcher with its beak sticking into wet sand.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 12d

Given the #sports #gambling scandal in the news today, here's my post last month on TechNewsLit Explores about sports betting.

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Those who think sports betting won't affect sports integrity or suck in the athletes are kidding themselves. #SportsBetting

Sports gambling is a bad bet, especially for sports

Caitlin Clark and women’s basketball teammates at a University of Iowa campus rally, 14 Apr. 2023. (Photo: A. Kotok) Alan Kotok, CEO...

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 12d

That's very kind. Thank you Danielley.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.bsky.social · 14d

Today's #BirdOfTheDay request is for #birds with #green. This green heron, photo'd on 25 April at Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in Palm Beach County, #Florida should qualify. (If not the coloring, then at least the name.)

#Photography #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Overhead shot of a green heron in Florida swamp grass.

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