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Scottie Tuska
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Minneapolis via Wisconsin. Roadtripper. Northwoods enthusiast. Dad. Go Pack Go.

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

Still blogging with my wife: http://mnisforlovers.com
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Iowa, that’s not how you spell Wisconsin. Hopefully they do Supper Clubs better.
Sign featuring today’s specials with a misspelled “Wisconson Cheese” soup.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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St Cloud gets a bad rap, but the Munsinger Gardens are a sight to behold.

September 2025

#Minnesota #BotanicalGarden
#Scape #PhotographersOfBluesky
#NoCoastKin
Tall thin pines reach up above the botanical gardens in St Cloud, Minnesota. My son walks through the rising and falling stone path bordered by red flowers.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Some more photos from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Old Salem was special, but the areas around downtown were also pretty rad. One of the more walkable Southern cities that isn't New Orleans or Savannah levels of historic.

#thesouth #urbanlandscape #urbangaze
#eastcoastkin #scape #photography
Neoclassical mashup at the First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. A narrow dive bar from a 60 degree almost side profile. The upper side of the building has a hand painted sign in blue and red reading SILVER MOON Ale and Beer. Two men are drinking in the patio lined by a metal fence with a silver moon. A mid-century apartment on the edge of downtown Winston-Salem. An almost New Orleans-style black double porch with a stucco facade. Double yellow doors repeat across the facade on both floors 3 times. The old RJR cigarette factory turned foodie destination. A band plays at the edge of a plaza that lies beneath old railroad works that picked up tobacco products from the brick factory.
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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South Shore Park beer garden along Lake Michigan in Bay View. Pedestrian Bridge across the Milwaukee River. A delightful restaurant in Bay View. A brewery in Bay View.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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What perfect album came to it the year you turned 16?
Broken Social Scene You Forgot it in People Queen of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf Spoon Kill the Moonlight Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Sheesh...
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I guess I never posted photos from my stay at the Eureka Inn when I shot at Cal Poly Humboldt at the end of Summer. Still thinking about those Nancy Reagan and Steve Young portraits.

#architecturalphotography
#architecture
#nflsky #norcal #49ers
An opulent two story lobby at the Eureka Inn in its namesake city. Gold leaf lines the coffered ceiling, which leads down the sides of the room. Painted portraits line the end of the room of famed guests. An old phone switchboard under a portrait of Steve Young. To the upper left is a portait of Nancy Regan above what may be Shirley Temple.
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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After 3 work trips to Boston this year, I think it might just be my favorite American city. Right up there with Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco.
An small, old church on a narrow lot. A brick building-lined street curves in Boston's North End.
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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And a couple more from a dreary night in Boston's North End.
Pedestrians walk through Boston's Little Italy, the North End. Rain reflects off North Square in Boston's North End.
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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A rain-soaked Faneuil Hall and passerby.

#Boston #urbangaze
#streetphotography
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Lost in a rainy Boston. From Downtown to the North End.

October 2025

#boston #urbangaze #streetphotography
#photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #photography
A wet North End, Boston intersection at dusk. Golden street lights light up the divergent intersection. A triangular brick building with copper bay windows anchors the intersection. A moped rider in rain gear uses the bike lanes in Downtown Boston on a rainy night from the remnants of an October tropical storm. A monument to Paul Revere is bookend by a row of mature trees. In the distance are Italian flags criss-crossing the square.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Apparently our 12 year old daughter has this all figured out.
Thorough list of places we need to go in Tokyo and across Japan by my daughter on wide ruled paper.
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Hopefully we’ll be catching some wild ice soon.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright

#iceskating #wildice
Wild ice after a February thaw in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Silhouetted pines and hemlocks reflect off the ice.
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The Moravians that settled Salem (well before Winston) knew how to build a door.

#door #architecture
#architecturalphotography
A simple early 1800s clapboard home in white with tan trim. A chevron pattern repeats up the red, windowless door.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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These compost bins in Boston are adorable.

But also they’re just the appropriate size.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Four tall ones from Old Salem. Make sure you click on em to get a better view.
The German Moravian architecture of Old Salem. This three story facade features a prominent balcony that shades the sidewalk and second level. A yellow facade is accented by green trim and shutters. A brick Morovian Colonial-era Church with a large clock atop the peak and a clapboard and copper steeple. Mirrored arched windows with diamond like parting above green entry doors on an early American duplex. A side profile of a simple clapboard facade looking back at Old Salem.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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OK. Well, I got to editing some of my month plus backlog of non-work photos. Anyways, aren't these pink and tan stone and brick buildings in Old Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina awesome.

#architecture #streetphotography
#photographersofbluesky
#urbangaze #northcarolina
A man walks his dog past a a blue SUV in front of a Colonial-era building in Wintson-Salem, North Carolina. The symmetrical facade with four offset cross-hatched windows features a pink stone facade with a brick peak. A backyard with a barn in Old Salem. An Old Salem Streetscape. In the foreground a tan stone first floor sits under 2 1/2 stories of brick and a steep pitched roof. A wide red clapboard home wih black and white trim. The porch is painted white setting it apart the from the rest of the facade.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Just sitting in bed. Even this aurora cynic is impressed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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The Northern Lights plainly visible to the naked eye in the Lyndale neighborhood Minneapolis. Never thought I’d actually “see” them.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Didn’t realize Jacob Frey played soccer.
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I’ll have a ton of photos to share with you folks once I get through this run of shoots. But for now here are some photos of the Praire School Purcell-Cutts House from a number of years ago. A Minneapolis architectural gem.

#architecture #architecturalphotography
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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That kummelweck roll really sets it apart. Kind of a Kaiser roll/pretzel mash up. Otherwise very similar to a Baltimore Pit Beef.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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They should just make all the locations Pizza Hut Classics. The one we went to last December even had a salad bar!
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Quietly one of the best blocks to get something incredible to eat between the Twin Cities and Green Bay. Wausau’s Hmong Eggroll and Taqueria El Zabas rule.
Google Map of a Wausau, Wisconsin neighborhood with two incredible restaurants.
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Day dreaming about paddling back at the Boundary Waters.

September 2025

#stunday #wilderness #photographersofbluesky #minnesota #photography #nocoastkin
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM