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:
Early Christmas present for myself. Came home this afternoon with a new 100K titanium knee to match my titanium hip! Guess I won't be out with my camera taking pics for a few days. This will be my excuse for posting Oldies but Goodies for a bit. 😬
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Early Christmas present for myself. Came home this afternoon with a new 100K titanium knee to match my titanium hip! Guess I won't be out with my camera taking pics for a few days. This will be my excuse for posting Oldies but Goodies for a bit. 😬
Top this Stephen King! 😆
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Top this Stephen King! 😆
Brilliant Colors of Autumn University of Washington Campus:
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Brilliant Colors of Autumn University of Washington Campus:
Brilliant Colors of Autumn University of Washington Campus:
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Brilliant Colors of Autumn University of Washington Campus:
Autumn and the University of Washington's Gothic buildings just seem to go together!
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Autumn and the University of Washington's Gothic buildings just seem to go together!
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:
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 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:
Snack Time. Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Snack Time. Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
If you enlarge the pic, you can just about make out my reflection in the Gull's eye. Since momma Gull refused to help, juvenile Gull decided to wander over to me at Alki Beach to see if I had any food to spare: 🪶
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
If you enlarge the pic, you can just about make out my reflection in the Gull's eye. Since momma Gull refused to help, juvenile Gull decided to wander over to me at Alki Beach to see if I had any food to spare: 🪶
Seattle at Sunset from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Seattle at Sunset from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
Doris Totten Chase's 1971 fifteen foot tall Changing Form abstract steel sculpture Queen Anne's Kerry Park. Originally the top piece was designed to rotate, but later the sculptor welded the pieces together to prevent damage and possible injury:
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Doris Totten Chase's 1971 fifteen foot tall Changing Form abstract steel sculpture Queen Anne's Kerry Park. Originally the top piece was designed to rotate, but later the sculptor welded the pieces together to prevent damage and possible injury:
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing across Puget Sound bound for Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula below the cloud-shrouded Olympic Mountains, viewed from Alki Beach:
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing across Puget Sound bound for Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula below the cloud-shrouded Olympic Mountains, viewed from Alki Beach:
Washington State Ferry Walla Walla sailing across Puget Sound bound for Seattle off Alki Beach:
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Washington State Ferry Walla Walla sailing across Puget Sound bound for Seattle off Alki Beach:
We live in a magical place. Olympic Mountains this morning from Alki Beach:
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
We live in a magical place. Olympic Mountains this morning from Alki Beach:
Her Majesty Tahoma at sunset, viewed from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Her Majesty Tahoma at sunset, viewed from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
Her Majesty Tahoma at sunset, viewed from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Her Majesty Tahoma at sunset, viewed from Queen Anne's Kerry Park:
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing across Puget Sound below The Brothers peaks of the Olympic Mountains, viewed from Alki Beach:
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Washington State Ferry Chimacum sailing across Puget Sound below The Brothers peaks of the Olympic Mountains, viewed from Alki Beach:
Side eye from an Alki Beach crow: 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Side eye from an Alki Beach crow: 🪶
With all the other BS going on in this country, just what we need here in Seattle. Our Mountain blowing Her top! 🙄
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
With all the other BS going on in this country, just what we need here in Seattle. Our Mountain blowing Her top! 🙄
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Snack Time. Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Snack Time. Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Strike! Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Strike! Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Portrait of a Great Blue Heron Alki Beach: 🪶