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Ryan Aw

@rawcaptures.net

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Environmentalist, Adventurer, Cat parent, Outdoor Photographer 🔗 www.rawcaptures.net/links Conservation Through Composition

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · Apr 27

Hi BlueSky, I’m Ryan!

I’m an environmentalist, adventurer, photographer, and full-time cat parent that’s hopelessly in love with Earth

While I spend most of my time advocating for the polar regions, there isn’t a single ecosystem on this planet that escapes my interest
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A self portrait of me looking at the night sky, with the southern Milky Way reaching across the Antarctic night sky while standing on the bow of the M/V Ortelius

Sony A1 ii, Sony 12-24mm GM - 3s, f/2.8, ISO12800

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 3h

I’m not sure what part of destroying public lands, selling the resources to foreign companies, polluting clean water supplies for Alaskans, or destroying a National Park is “America First”

Sorry, but you’d have to be truly fucking stupid to think this project benefits anyone

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STOP SEISMIC TESTING IN THE ARCTIC Companies are showing interest in seismic exploration in the Arctic Refuge. This is not just paperwork - it's the

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 3h

www.protectthekobuk.org/contact-your...

Contact Your Reps | Protect the Kobuk

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 3h

act.npca.org/page/88394/a...

13 Million Acres of Public Lands at Risk

Dismantling the Central Yukon plan through a congressional resolution would throw our entire system of managing public lands into chaos. Urge your senators to vote No on S.J. RES 63. We must protect...

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 3h

This administration has approved the Ambler Road Project - a 211 mile PRIVATE road ONLY for heavy machinery to exploit and extract minerals in the fragile Alaskan tundra

It cuts through land of over 40 indigenous tribes, as well as important salmon streams and caribou migration routes

#publiclands

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 13h

National Parks may be open during this govt shutdown, but I’d advise against visiting

They lack the federal funding and workforce to keep the parks clean and safe.

But - state, city, & other locally funded parks like the Garden of the Gods are equally stunning and worth visiting

#publiclands

Strange rock formations in Colorado, USA

Sony A1 ii, Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM ii - 1/125s, f/6.3, ISO 100

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 13h

These strange rocks formed over a span of 300 million years

Then, about 70 million years ago, a massive shift in tectonic plates caused these sharp, angular bits of red and pink sandstone to rise from beneath the surface

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 13h

Originally known as Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i in the Arapaho language.

To the Ute people, this is a sacred land, believing the formations to be ancestral beings “frozen” into the rocks, or even the origin of their existence

#indigenous #nativeland

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 13h

We left Denver for Salida, our base for the next few days while we endeavoured to explore the Great Sand Dunes NP

But first, we stopped by the Garden of the Gods, hiking through these strange rock formations

#colorado #publiclands #photography

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 16h

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If you already have a website…why not turn your contact page (or even add an unlisted page) into your own “link in bio?”

#photography #linkinbio

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 16h

Haha that’s exactly what we did.

We were up early to do some hikes through Garden of the Gods on our way down to Salida the next morning!

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