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Artist / Light Scientist. I create Art the way my eye sees the world. Message me for private viewings of my studio - ATL 👁 🎥 👁

Patience Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotograp

Patience
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. 🙏🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽 Our difficult and very urgent task is to accept the truth that nature is not primarily a property to be possessed, but a gift to be received with admiration and gratitude. Only when we make a deep bow to the rivers, oceans, hills, and mountains that offer us a home, only then can they become transparent and reveal to us their real meaning. Wise men don’t judge , they seek to understand. Why? 🙏🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽☀️🔥👁🌻🌹🌼🌸🌺🐚🌎💐🌷🍁🍄🍀🌱🎋🍃

Title "Sublime" Photographed by @douglasstrattonph

Title "Sublime"
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind ! Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Take responsibility of your own happiness. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Love your Brathas and sistas! Spread love and receive it back! If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say!! Why not help one another on the way?
Make this life just a little bit easier! ☀️🙏🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽 One love! One life ! One destiny❤️ Instagram Cropped 😔... https://douglasstratton.com/product/sublime/

Tree of Life ( Acacia Tree ) Photographed in the

Tree of Life ( Acacia Tree )
Photographed in the bush of Uganda among the wilds of Africa!
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Someday, I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dare to
Oh why, oh why can't I?
Well, I see trees of green and red roses too
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Well, I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark
And I think to myself what a wonderful world!! 🙏🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽

Galaxy Castaway Photographed by @douglasstrattonp

Galaxy Castaway
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Solitude doesn't have to equal loneliness. While being alone can feel uncomfortable at first, it offers the opportunity to tune out distractions and rediscover yourself. Get in sync with the inner you with the below collection of wise and inspirational quotes on being alone.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. Sometimes I find myself in places where I can see my dreams come to realities. Not a soul in sight but wild horses , horseshoe crabs and nesting birds while countless stars remind me of how small I really am.... #Remember how small we are on in this universe. Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will!
Treat each other how you want to be treated!! God bless you people out there and remind us all to have child like hearts 💕🤟🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽🙏🏽

A River Runs through it. Photographed by @douglass

A River Runs through it. Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things!! #

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. Over time the river itself changes too like the world we live I . It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land eventually merging into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. God bless you and yours and these turbulent times.
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Swept Away Location : St Barths Photographed by @

Swept Away
Location : St Barths
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young. The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. May you and your family say safe and healthy in these strange times!

Bold As Love ❤️🤟🏽🙌🏽👁🤙🏽🙏🏽🤟🏽
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

I am a Black Raven and I am all knowing. I know and see life and death, expansion and contraction. I do not shiver and cry because I am unafraid. I am black as liquid night with wings of light while my eyes are stars to see by.

The light within me leads the way and it is revealed through my eyes that I am what lies between the dark and light.

I am the balance between the light and dark! 👁❤️👁 May God bless you !! Douglas

Wildfires Smoky Tetons Photographed by @douglasst

Wildfires Smoky Tetons
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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Wildfire during sunset... Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds!! Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind And it defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

Great Egret Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotog

Great Egret
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Feel free to share repost comment and appreciate Wildlife and Nature 🙏🏽🤟🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽 Some birds are not meant to be caged. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

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The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many wetlands across the world. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans. They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill. Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.

The Great Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society, one of the oldest environmental organizations in North America. Audubon was founded to protect birds from being killed for their feathers.

Baby White Rhino 🦏 Photographed by @douglasst

Baby White Rhino 🦏
Photographed by
@douglasstrattonphotography
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world. Humankind must learn to understand that the life of an animal is in no way less precious than our own.

The white rhino is an endangered species with a population of around 18,000 living in 2020.
White rhinos are the second largest land mammal and their name comes from the Afrikaan’s, a West Germanic language, word “weit” which means wide and refers to the animal’s mouth. Also known as the square-lipped rhinoceros, white rhinos have a square upper lip with almost no hair. White rhinos have complex social structures. Groups of sometimes 14 rhinos may form, notably females with calves. Adult males defend territories of roughly one square mile, which they mark with vigorously scraped dung piles. The home range for adult females can be more than seven times larger, depending on habitat quality and population density. Breeding females are prevented from leaving a dominant male’s territory, which is marked and patrolled by its owner on a regular basis. Males competing for a female may engage in serious conflict, using their horns and massive size to inflict wounds.

In almost all rhino conservation areas, there are other valuable plants and animals. The protection of rhinos helps protect other species. Rhinos contribute to economic growth and sustainable development through the tourism industry, which creates job opportunities and provides tangible benefits to local communities living alongside rhinos.

Wild Lion Cub Photographed by @douglasstrattonpho

Wild Lion Cub
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location : Murchison Falls, Uganda 🇺🇬 @canonusa Canon 1 DX and a Canon fixed 500mm lens
Guide: @shakatoursuganda & @hanningtonprince
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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. Life goes on and you learn from your mistakes and grow or stay the same ... Lion cubs are born with tawny black spots which eventually disappears as they grow older. When it is time to give birth a lioness leaves her pride and has her lion cubs in dense cover. Cubs remain hidden for one to two months before being introduced to the rest of the pride.
Cubs stay with their mothers for about two years, by which stage they have joined the pride's hunting trips.

After one to two years of nomadic life these young males drive out the resident males of a pride and take over the females.

Acacia Tree by night Photographed by @douglasstra

Acacia Tree by night
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Feel free to share —-> Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we look at once in a while. Our Ancestors believed the stars where Gods! Now they are faint lights lost in light pollution around the world. The TV got us reaching for stars Not the ones between Venus and Mars, but the ones that be reading for parts ... ?!! Why?? Believe in what’s real! Protect what is important and secret and which is important for future generations!! The time is Now!! When the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable !! Your position is pivotal.. what’s our future? Let’s rock this rock 🌏 by loving 🥰 her environment 🙏🏽 get up stand up for what’s right 🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🙌🏽🤟🏽🔥🌎☀️🦊🦅🦉🦇🐝🐒🐸🐺🐗🐴🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🦂🕸🕷🦗🦟🐢🐙🐡🐠🦑🐍🦎🦐🐟🐬🦞🦀🐳🐬🐟🐋🦈🐊🐅🐆🐘🦧🦍🦓🦏🐪🐫🦒🦘🦛🐖🐎🐄🐂🐃🐏🐑🦙🐐🦌🐈🦢🦜🦚🐕🐓🦃🦩🕊🐇🦝🦨🐀🐁🦥🦦🦡🐿🦔🌿🌴🍄🍁🍃🎋🐚🌺🌞🌚🌜💫🌙🪐🌏⭐️🌚⚡️🌈🌪💧

One Love ❤️ Photographed by @Douglasstrattonph

One Love ❤️ Photographed by @Douglasstrattonphotography
Location: #uganda
The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before so don’t be a cow 🐄 ! Be a leader .... Enjoying being you!! #### #Giraffes are found in the dry savannas of Africa, where they roam among the open plains and woodlands. Well known for their long necks, these gentle giants are the world’s tallest living land animals. Herbivores, giraffes only eat plants. Their favourite grub is the acacia tree, and they use their long necks to reach the leaves and buds in the treetops. Giraffe numbers plummeted by a staggering 40% in the last three decades, and less than 100,000 remain today. Habitat loss through expanding agriculture, human-wildlife conflict, civil unrest, and poaching for their meat, pelts, and tails, are among the reasons for the decline.

Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus) Phot

Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus)
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
The malachite kingfisher is a river kingfisher which is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara.
The general colour of the upper parts of the adult bird is bright metallic blue. The head has a short crest of black and blue feathers, which gives rise to the scientific name. The face, cheeks and underparts are rufous and there are white patches on the throat and rear neck sides.

The bill is black in young birds and reddish orange in adults; the legs are bright red. Males and females look alike, but juveniles are a duller version of the adult.

The flight of the Malachite Kingfisher is rapid, the short rounded wings whirring until they appear a mere blur. It usually flies low over water.

Hard Sun Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotogra

Hard Sun
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

The African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) The largest living animal walking the earth.
An elephant in the morning light captured in the pearl of Africa. Uganda 🇺🇬🙏🏽🙌🏽🤟🏽🔥🤙🏽 No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant!!! Our job on earth isn't to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

Let’s love the wildlife of the world and protect if for future generations! If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Because humans want to save things that they love 🤟🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽 🐘☀️ What do you love ?

Afar Tribe Great Horn Region Ethiopia Photograph

Afar Tribe
Great Horn Region Ethiopia
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
On location with @godesigninc helping kids!! #
Appreciation is the least felt emotion on earth. What we have and what we think we need is so often over looked. Too often, we do not take the time to stop and appreciate things, big and small. The people in our lives the food on our tables the life we live. Our family and the people we love so dearly!
If we learn to see the beauty, the gratefulness, and the appreciation in the big and small, we learn to live a life of gratitude, and we learn the lesson that we have a great deal to be thankful for. I am thankful so many things but as I write this I am thankful that I had the experience to see another way of life which gives me insight on my own way of life. How I live and how I treat others and let them know that I am thankful for them. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things!
God bless you - Douglas
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Afar people of the Horn of Africa who speak Afar (also known as ’Afar Af), a language of the Eastern Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They live in northeastern Ethiopia, southeastern Eritrea, and Djibouti, where, with the Issas, they are the dominant people. It is thought that the Afar were the first of the present inhabitants of Ethiopia to elaborate their pastoral life into full-scale nomadism, descending from the highlands of southeast Ethiopia and migrating to the stony desert area of Danakil, the name sometimes used by Arabs to identify them but which is now considered to be offensive

Afar Tribal Mother and her two sons On location i

Afar Tribal Mother and her two sons
On location in the Afar region of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Here a mother Afar woman consents to be photographed with her two sons in her home. Afar women often have intricate frizzed and braided hairstyles, and wear bright coloured bead necklaces, heavy earrings and brass anklets. Many Afar women cover their heads in public. This helps ward off the relentless sun.

Afar people are predominantly Muslim. They have a long association with Islam through the various local Muslim polities and practice the Sunni form of Islam. The Afar mainly follow the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam. Sufi orders like the Qadiriyya are also widespread among the Afar. Afar religious life is somewhat syncretic with a blend of Islamic concepts and pre-Islamic ones such as rain sacrifices on sacred locations, divination, and folk healing.

Socially, they are organized into clan families led by elders and two main classes: the asaimara ('reds') who are the dominant class politically, and the adoimara ('whites') who are a working class and are found in the Mabla Mountains.[15]Clans can be fluid and even include outsiders like Somalis.

In addition, the Afar are reputed for their martial prowess. Men traditionally sport the jile, a famous curved knife. They also have an extensive repertoire of battle songs.

Abameanda Afar Tribe Photographed by @douglasstra

Abameanda Afar Tribe
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
On location with @godesigninc

The Afar (Afar: Qafár), also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, are an ethnic Cushitic people inhabiting the Horn of Africa. They primarily live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as well as the entire southern part of Eritrea. The Afar speak the Afar language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Afars are the only Horners whose traditional territories borders both the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

It is thought that the Afar were the first of the present inhabitants of Ethiopia to elaborate their pastoral life into full-scale nomadism, descending from the highlands of southeast Ethiopia and migrating to the stony desert area of Danakil, the name sometimes used by Arabs to identify them but which is now considered to be offensive.

The Afar subsistence economy depends on livestock, especially goats, some camels, and, more rarely, cattle. There are some exceptions, such as fishermen in the coastal areas and agriculturalists in the Assau oasis. The Afar also mine and export salt.

Proud, highly individualistic, and much feared by outsiders, they are organized in patrilineal kin groups. Cooperation in larger units such as a subtribe or tribe is induced only by warfare against other tribes or neighbouring peoples.

Lofoten Islands Archipelago - Captured during Norw

Lofoten Islands Archipelago - Captured during Norway’s Midnight sun ☀️ aka Endless summer
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5 prints on display @masonfineart
From Left to right
Midnight Sheep - 40x60
Rein Fjord - 60x96
Olstinden Mountain - 40x60
Værøya's Mount Mostadfjell - 60x80
Rorbuer's of Hamnoya Island - 60x40

The Eye 👁 Photographed by @douglasstrattonphot

The Eye 👁
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

# It's very important to transcend places that hold us. Every capture is a moment in time that I look for intimacy with nature. I do the research before but it’s when connecting with nature that I get the moment and recice food for my soul! I visit these locations often and I come back to see landscapes like you would see an old friend. We have memories together and I yearn to be with these places that have excelled my Art. To get the shot I get comfortable being uncomfortable. Like this capture of an arch which felt like an eye looking back at me. I captured the sun inside this arch on a very cold winter morning after I slept in a hippy van with the temperatures around 7 degrees. I spent about a month exploring the Great American Southwest and I yearn to be back among the desert at this very moment. It’s an all inspiring landscape with many secrets and endlessness ... Thank you @canonusa ! #utah #desert #arch #landbridge #earth #eye #believeinyourdreams #adventure

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