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Scottie Tuska
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Minneapolis dweller. Roadtripper. Northwoods enthusiast. Backyard Rink builder. Go Pack Go.

Shoot 360, architectural & travel photography for a living at Alleycat 360 | Photography: http://alleycat.mn

Still blogging with my wife: http://mnisforlovers.com
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Scottie Tuska @nxnorthwoods.bsky.social · Sep 5
The many moods of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. America's greatest wilderness.

Got back up here for the first time in 6 years, once again getting outfitted by Voyageur Canoe Outfitters. Minnesota at its best.

#bwca #nocoast
#scape #forestfriday
#photography
#minnesota #boundarywaters
The hills of the BWCA looking across Ogishkemuncie Lake on a moody evening. A couple of canoes tucked on a rocky shore along a campsite in the 1.1 million acre wilderness area on the periphery. The kids swimming on a perfect beach with a rad gradient from gravel to sky blue on big Sag Lake. The BWCA forest lingers along the horizon. The boy fishes on a rocky shore. A Wenonah canoe reflecting the last light of the day. The ever-present forest is cast in shadows along the horizon under painterly clouds. Portaging from Alpine into Jasper Lake. The kids and wife wait while their uncles place a pair of Kevlar canoes into the water from a rocky shore. The young forest is a radiant green along the shores.
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I know some of you will come after me for this but I don’t care…

Doubs gets the onside, clock runs out, game over: “Hahaha Bears still suck! They couldn’t beat us with our QB2!!”

Instead: “Fire LaFleur! Fire Bisaccia! Fire Gute! Cut Nixon!!”

Some of you kill me…
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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packers offseason priorities:
1) hafley and willis extensions
2) chain hafley and willis to lambeau if they say no
3) fire bisaccia
4) renaming the sledding hill after mark murphy
5) extend tucker kraft
6) ban the packers from playing in denver ever again
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Go Pack Go
Gangster SpongeBob
December 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Willis games are so fun tbh.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Turns out Virginia Beach is a resort town with a massive suburb attached. Not on my list of "Real American Cities." Do I even try and explore Norfolk tonight?
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Al Michaels doesn’t know he’s only on streaming. And Kirk thinks Sam Bradford is quarterbacking for the Seahawks.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Who cares about Darnold? All I see is Jordan Love’s a top five QB in his first three years.
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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A Baltimore photo thread from last night for those who appreciate brick row houses.
nxnorthwoods.bsky.social Scottie Tuska @nxnorthwoods.bsky.social · 3d
Congrats, Baltimore. Your added to my extremely exclusive list of "Real American Cities." Day or night, the areas around the cities' Inner Harbor have some amazing urbanism.

Here are four night shots of Baltimore's Little Italy and Fells Point.
A faux(?) stone first floor below brick upper flats in Little Italy. A large neon sign reads "Vaccaro's" in blue cursive text. A stucco first floor with angled wood door below a brick upper facade. The red neon signs in the window read "Penny Black." A brick wide row house with star bolts between windows. The first floor is dominated by black barn doors.
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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A couple of dusk shoots of Baltimore's hip Fells Point. This area with its central market was reminiscent of Cincinatti's Over the Rhine.

#urbangaze #scape #cityscape #streetphotography
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Congrats, Baltimore. Your added to my extremely exclusive list of "Real American Cities." Day or night, the areas around the cities' Inner Harbor have some amazing urbanism.

Here are four night shots of Baltimore's Little Italy and Fells Point.
A faux(?) stone first floor below brick upper flats in Little Italy. A large neon sign reads "Vaccaro's" in blue cursive text. A stucco first floor with angled wood door below a brick upper facade. The red neon signs in the window read "Penny Black." A brick wide row house with star bolts between windows. The first floor is dominated by black barn doors.
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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I'm a simple man who just wants breweries to explore good old American Pale Ales. The standby Summit EPAs and Boulevard Pale Ales need to make a comeback.
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Traversed Washington state, after a shoot back in late October, with the wife and kids. Mount Rainier was under a shroud of clouds when we made it to the national park, but really, I just wanted to see the big trees.

#MountRainier #forestfriday
#photography #scape #nationalparks
Daughter in a red coat in a lush green forest of giant Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock. A waterfall is framed by Washington evergreens and moss-covered rocks. Trippy greens surround water percolating from the earth’s surface.
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
nxnorthwoods.bsky.social
Traversed Washington state, after a shoot back in late October, with the wife and kids. Mount Rainier was under a shroud of clouds when we made it to the national park, but really, I just wanted to see the big trees.

#MountRainier #forestfriday
#photography #scape #nationalparks
Daughter in a red coat in a lush green forest of giant Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock. A waterfall is framed by Washington evergreens and moss-covered rocks. Trippy greens surround water percolating from the earth’s surface.
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The Packers have not lost to a divisional opponent so far this season. ☺️
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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What’s your “how can one album have so many bangers” album
The cover art for Cursive’s The Ugly Organ
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Four more from Seattle, just cause.

My son decided that the Space Needle was named Psycho and two aliens named Tycho and Mycho live there.
Key arena with the Space Needle in the background t night. A silly sign calls the arena Climate Pledge Arena. A vegetable stand at Pike's Place market. Sunny's Teriyaki in an industrial area near the Salmon Bay. An orange sculpture between two trees with the Puget Sound in the distance at Olympic Sculpture Park.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
nxnorthwoods.bsky.social
Four more from Seattle, just cause.

My son decided that the Space Needle was named Psycho and two aliens named Tycho and Mycho live there.
Key arena with the Space Needle in the background t night. A silly sign calls the arena Climate Pledge Arena. A vegetable stand at Pike's Place market. Sunny's Teriyaki in an industrial area near the Salmon Bay. An orange sculpture between two trees with the Puget Sound in the distance at Olympic Sculpture Park.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I’m happy to report that Seattle kind of rules.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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There were some great records that I listened to this year and then theirs American Analog Sets’ Set Free. I just love that record even as it turned 20 this year.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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The Seattle waterfront has to be one of the best public spaces in the United States. Might just add the city to my very selective list of "Real American Cities."

#urbangaze #seattle
#streetphotography #westcoast
#photographersofbluesky
An October sun peaks through dramatic clouds along the Puget Sound near the Seattle Ferry Terminal. My family waits in line at an old ferry terminal turned ice cream shop along the Seattle Waterfront. The silver and blue Seattle skyline rises above the reimagined Seattle Waterfront.
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Four storefronts from an Upstate New York work trip. From Potsdam to Long Lake with a stop in Tupper Lake along the way.

#upstate #newyork
#architecture #architecturalphotography
#eastcoastkin #photographersonbluesky
A Richardson Romanesque stone three-plus story building along Potsdam's main drag featuring large arched windows above a wood and glass first floor. A neon sign juts out from an eclectic facade. The first and third floors are covered in vertical cladding: red and black wood panels on the first, metal on the third floor. Brick wraps around the second floor towards the sides of the building. A brick storefront with a classic Italian restaurants signage in red, white and green including an awning clad in Italy's colors. Gold letters read: "SERGI'S Italian RESTAURANT". An angular mid-century walk up ice cream stand featuring the words "Custard's Last Stand" in red font.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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This is the truth.
billchilds.bsky.social Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · Dec 19
A friendly reminder to locals for this afternoon/evening: walking through snow to a local bar or restaurant, when most else is quiet, is among life’s greatest pleasures.
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Four storefronts from an Upstate New York work trip. From Potsdam to Long Lake with a stop in Tupper Lake along the way.

#upstate #newyork
#architecture #architecturalphotography
#eastcoastkin #photographersonbluesky
A Richardson Romanesque stone three-plus story building along Potsdam's main drag featuring large arched windows above a wood and glass first floor. A neon sign juts out from an eclectic facade. The first and third floors are covered in vertical cladding: red and black wood panels on the first, metal on the third floor. Brick wraps around the second floor towards the sides of the building. A brick storefront with a classic Italian restaurants signage in red, white and green including an awning clad in Italy's colors. Gold letters read: "SERGI'S Italian RESTAURANT". An angular mid-century walk up ice cream stand featuring the words "Custard's Last Stand" in red font.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM