Alan Kotok
Groovin' to Cha Wa. Photo by Alan Kotok
Rosslyn Jazz Festival. Arlington, Virginia. September 2019.
The day-long Rosslyn Jazz Festival featured a group from New Orleans called the Cha Wa Band that sent a 30-megawatt energy charge through the audience, including this young lady who got up danced. She was not alone.
Booker vs. Breitbart. Photo by Alan Kotok
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey at National Press Club. October 2019.
When Cory Booker was running for the Democratic nomination for president, he held a press conference at National Press Club. A reporter from Breibart News tried to bait Booker with a racially-charged question, but he was having none of it.
Rufous-tailed jacamar. Photo by Alan Kotok
Hanging Bridges Park. La Fortuna, Costa Rica. February 2020.
We visited Costa Rica and Panama in February and March 2020. Costa Rica specializes in eco-tourism, and for good reason. Jacamars are elegant insect-eating birds with lustrous feathers found in Central and South America.
LNG tanker SM Eagle on the Panama Canal. Photo by Alan Kotok
Leaving the Agua Clara locks and entering Gatun Lake. March 2020.
Before visiting Panama, I thought the canal was basically a ditch dug out across the isthmus. We learned and saw, however, that much of the canal is lakes created from dammed-up rivers. In this case the SM Eagle, carrying liquified natural gas, or LNG, is entering Gatun Lake near Colon at the canal's Atlantic Ocean terminus.
Alan Kotok, founder of Technology News and Literature (www.technewslit.com), reports on business and science, producing Science and Enterprise, a daily online news service connecting scientific discovery to the marketplace. Previously, he was managing editor of Science Careers, the online employment portal of Science magazine. Kotok is co-chair of National Press Club's Photography Committee and one of the Club's volunteer event photographers.