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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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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.

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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.

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#CapeMay #JerseyShore #EastCoastKin
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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.

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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
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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.

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#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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This #small bee is doing its #pollination thing with a #flower on Little Falls St. in Falls Church, #Virginia, Aug. 2021.

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#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.

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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.

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#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.

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#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
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#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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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
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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
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#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
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#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
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#EastCoastKin
Two swans floating on a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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.

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#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
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For #Stunday, here's a great blue heron photo'd this week at Huntley Meadows Park, a #wetlands #wildlife sanctuary in Groveton, Va.

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Photo of a great blue heron standing on a log in a pond with vegetation floating in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This #BirdOfTheDay is a mallard duck as it #TakesOff from Sparrow Pond along Four Mile Run in #Arlington, #Virginia. Photo'd May 2025.

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#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Photo of a mallard duck flapping its wings as it takes off from a pond.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In May at St. Stephen's Green in #Dublin, we saw three #ducks #fighting over ducklings, which was unsettling to watch. Not all #NaturePhotography is pretty.

#Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Ireland
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
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Two male mallard ducks and one female duck fighting in a pond.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM