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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 · Oct 15
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

www.alamy.com/portfolio/13...
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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Here's a northern flicker for #WoodpeckerWednesday, part of the woodpecker family, so I'm told. Photo'd at Falls Church, #Virginia in Apr 2024.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Northern flicker in partial shadow on a tree branch with a blurred background.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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These sandpipers are at water's edge or #OnTheEdge for today's #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd in Sept 2025 at Cape May, NJ.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#CapeMay #JerseyShore #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
A photo of ten sandpiper birds on a beach, with gentle ocean waves nearby.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I photo'd this pileated woodpecker #HangingAround Banneker Park near the East Falls Church Metro in #Arlington, #Virginia in Apr. 2024 for today's #BirdOfTheDay.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Pileated woodpecker hanging on to tree bark, looking to the right.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Inca crafts vendor plays a tune for young visitors and their Mom. D.C. holiday market at Dupont Circle, 15 Nov. 2025

#Photography #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography
#HumansOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Inca crafts vendor plays a flute in front of his goods in an open-air market, Watching are two young children and their Mom.
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The DoD investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is making #news today. See our report: write.as/technewslit/...

Also in recent news: Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO). See photos in our #Alamy portfolio: www.alamy.com/portfolio/13...

#NewsPhotography
Sen. Mark Kelley (D-AZ) gesturing with his right hand.
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay request is for #Mr&Mrs in the same image. I assume these nesting wood storks in Apr 2025 qualify, photo'd at Wakodahatchee Wetlands in south #Florida.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky
Photo of male and female wood storks with their nest in a tree.
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.

Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.

Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This #small bee is doing its #pollination thing with a #flower on Little Falls St. in Falls Church, #Virginia, Aug. 2021.

#BlueskyArtShow #Photography #NaturePhotography
#Nikon #Coolpix #LightroomClassic
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
A close-up photo of a bee pollinating a bright yellow flower.
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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This #GroundedGull may not be on terra firma, but it's well attached to the Sean O'Casey bridge in #Dublin, #Ireland.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
Seagull standing on a metal pole with an office building and church in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The specified alternative #BirdOfTheDay today is #waders, and this Western swamphen is doing just that at Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park in south #Florida. Photo'd Apr 2025.

#Photograph #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Western swamphen wading through shallow water.
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Most of my #bird photos are lean and mean, so I had to hunt a bit to find this #round critter, a northern cardinal in our backyard, photo'd in Jan 2024.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#Virginia #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Male northern cardinal on a tree branch with a blurred winter-snow background.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Photo-shoot today: #Politico policy outlook for #financial #cybercrimes, with interviews of Reps Jim Himes (D-CT) and David Schweikert (R-AZ), plus industry experts.

More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-regio...

#Photography #NewsPhotography #Congress #WashingtonDC
Photo of interview with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) before a Politico backdrop. Photo of interview of Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) before a Politico backdrop.
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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As the six-part series "American Revolution" begins on PBS, photos of filmmaker and major funder David Rubenstein are available exclusively from the TechNewsLit portfolio at the Alamy photo agency.

www.alamy.com/portfolio/13...

#KenBurns #PBS #AmericanRevolution
Photo of filmmaker Ken burns, in an Alamy frame and watermarks.
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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D.C. Holiday Market, 15 Nov. 2025, New Hampshire Ave. NW looking north from Dupont Circle.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #WashingtonDC
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #Lightroom
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
Washington, D.C. holiday market: two rows of white tents, with a crowd of people between them, and a D.C. police car in the foreground.
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Only the #BuffaloBills could win a game making 3 turnovers, 7 penalties, and giving up 200 rushing yards. Josh Allen makes the difference: 3 rushing, 3 passing touchdowns.

#GoBills #BillsMafia
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay request is #ShadesOfGrey. Here's a grey heron, photo'd at Meadowlark Gardens Park in Vienna, Va., Mar. 2025.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Virginia
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographsUnited
#EastCoastKin
Photo of a grey heron in a tree, standing on a branch surrounded by branches and twigs.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Casting a line while surf fishing in #bright sunshine. Cape May, NJ, photo'd June 2024.

#Photography #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#CapeMay #JerseyShore
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Photo fo a surf fisher casting a line on a beach in bright sunshine.
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Here are two common #moorhens for today's #BirdOfTheDay, photo'd at St. Stephen's Green in #Dublin, 18 May 2025.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Ireland
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
Two common moorhens, colored red and black, floating on a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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You want #swans? I'll give you swans, two of them, photo'd in Cape May, NJ in Nov. 2024.

#BirdOfTheDay #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin
Two swans floating on a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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New post on TechNewsLit Explores: Big time sports now has big-time betting problems, with alleged mob ties to college athletes. Who would have seen that coming, right?

write.as/technewslit/...

I photo'd an interview with NCAA president Charlie Baker in July.
College sports now has big-time betting problems
NCAA president Charlie Baker warned about sports betting influencing college sports in his interview at the National Press Club in Ju...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Latest photo-shoot: Voice of America staff in lawsuit against Agency for Global Media at National Press Club, 12 Nov. 2025. Shown here: Plaintiffs (R-L) Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper.

More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Pre...

#Photography #NewsPhotography
Photo of three women from VOA suing Agency for Global Media, one holding a microphone and speaking.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This swan photo'd in Sept 2025 in Cape May, NJ is leaving a wake, which implies #paddling away underwater, and thus is today's #BirdOfTheDay.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#CapeMay #JerseyShore
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Phhoto of one white swan paddling along on a pond.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This northern cardinal struts his stuff as one of the #BirdsOnTheGround and #BirdOfTheDay. Photo'd Nov. 2024 in Cape May, N.J.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#CapeMay #JerseyShore #EastCoastKin
Male northern cardinal walking on the ground with twigs and sand.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Here's an #EastCoastKin double-dip: a common starling, my #least photo'd #BirdOfTheDay on a tree under a cloudless sky for #BlueSkyMonday. Shot Jan. 2025 in Falls Church, #Virginia.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds
#Nikon #CoolPix #LightroomClassic
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
A front-view photo of a common starling sitting on a bare tree under a cloudless sky.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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During a shoot yesterday morning of the Austin Tice 5K -- photos here -- technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Pre... -- I heard #bagpipes, found a group on Freedom Plaza practicing for today's Veterans Day parade, and got this photo.

#Photography #WashingtonDC #StreetPhotography
Photo of a bagpiper group in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Capitol in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM