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Ron St.Amant

@ronstamant.bsky.social

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I'm a US expat in Canada with my wife and two children. Degrees in History and American Studies. U of Utah, and U of Toronto. Proud Democrat. Proud father of and ally for 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 and anyone marginalized by systemic hate and bigotry.

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

Today's theme is #Nature #Photography

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

Treason Barbie spoke again?

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

Sometimes the algorithm hits the Playlist at the perfect moment emotionally

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If I Can't Change Your Mind

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

@jchidleyhill.bsky.social Hey, brother, just wanted to say I love ya. Haven't said it in awhile.
"I believe in John Chidley" 👏👏

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

This is what a President and a Statesman worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize should sound like

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on Middle East peace

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

Illegal Aliens Receiving Medicaid is the new Welfare Queens Driving Cadillacs...white racists scapegoating black and brown people so they can keep stealing all the green.

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 22h

I used to have a spot driving home work where the if the traffic was just right I could catch planes in the YYZ corridor in the rear window of the car in front of me...was never able to catch it in the lens though. Shots this are magical. Well done

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 23h

I hope when this nightmare ends this guy gets sent to GITMO

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 23h

It's a Thursday so enjoy this boopable nose...you're welcome

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 1d

I have thing for benches...
#Photography

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 2d

I saw it in theater twice. Hanks winning two Best Actor awards back-back completely ruined his chance for two others that I think should have won for: Saving Private Ryan and Castaway. Not to mention League of Their Own and another favorite performance is in Road to Perdition.

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 2d

So I've mentioned my wife says my photography is too bleak. These are the ones to which she rejected for display
#Photography
#Sepia
First is part of my bench project, another shot of an early morning sunrise at the beach and a ferris wheel, last a tree in the fall sunshine

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 3d

If you're a better physical specimen than Barack Obama, where's your shirtless running on a beach photo? If you're in better physical shape than President Bush was, when will you be throwing out the first pitch at a game from the mound, and hitting the strike zone?

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Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck these people.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 3d

I hate you right now

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Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 3d

Republican "legal analysts" once advised that torture wasn't torture if you called it "enhanced interrogation". Speaker Mike Johnson is an unserious, sycophants with delusions of importance. Also he's a clown 🤡

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 3d

Second post with some color removal
The 2nd one is my personal favorite.
#Photography
#ColorRemoval

Ron St.Amant @ronstamant.bsky.social · 3d

I started doing some color removal shots for a project. Here's 4 of them: two of my kids as babies, a shot of a sweet Gresch which took awhile to get right, and my very own eye which was the thing I tried to remove all but one color. I'll add some more in a second post.
#Photography
#onecolor