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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 👁 🎥 👁

Soul Rebel Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotog

Soul Rebel
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

I'm a capturer, soul adventure
See the morning sun
On the hillside
Not living good, yeah, travel wide
Said, I'm a living man,
I've got work to do
If you're not happy, children
Then you must be blue!

"Willow" photographed by @douglasstrattonphotograp

"Willow" photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been!! ##

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The Camargue horse is an ancient breed of horse indigenous to the Camargue area in southern #France. Its origins remain relatively unknown, although it is generally considered one of the oldest breeds of horses in the world. The Camargue Natural Park area is a haven of wetlands, natural lakes and marshes based at the Mediterranean Sea and includes a large #UNESCO designated biosphere reserve. The spring and autumn are the most popular times of the year to visit, when thousands of migrating birds come through the park’s wetlands. The main draw for bird-watchers are the pink flamingos throughout the park.

How I got the shot.... I was in the Camargue area during the fall a year ago. I spent time with the hoarse and I believe they are divine creatures. When working with wildlife you need to feed into the animals energy allowing them to feel they can trust you. This shot was captured with a Canon 1Dx camera and a canon 500 mm lens. I was standing on top of a large vehicle whispering to the horse as the sun was setting... I laugh because we had a Fabio moment with the horse wispin his mane like a model would . Cheers to the experience of life and those unforgettable experiences.
Thank you @canonusa I’ve been shooting with you for 15 years now! Thank you @graphis_inc for the awards you’ve given me for my passion and for publishing this capture. #Camarguehorses #wildhorses #france

Great White Egret and the Cypress Photographed by

Great White Egret and the Cypress
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Time to fly! The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return!🙏🏽 Great Egrets live in freshwater, brackish, and marine wetlands. During the breeding season they live in colonies in trees or shrubs with other waterbirds, ranging across the southeastern states and in scattered spots throughout the rest of the U.S. and southern Canada. The colonies are located on lakes, ponds, marshes, estuaries, impoundments, and islands. Great Egrets use similar habitats for migration stopover sites and wintering grounds. They hunt in marshes, swamps, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, impoundments, lagoons, tidal flats, canals, ditches, fish-rearing ponds, flooded farm fields, and sometimes upland habitats.

Great Egret Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotog

Great Egret
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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.

Three Little Birds Photographed by @douglasstratt

Three Little Birds
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Don't worry about a thing, cause every little things is going to be Alright!!!

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you
Singin' "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing!!!!’

Rothschild's giraffe is a subspecies of the giraffe. It is one of the most endangered distinct populations of giraffe, with 1,669 individuals estimated in the wild. Here in Murchison Falls National Park #Uganda I saw them in their natural environment running free and wild as can be! There’s nothing better to be on tour with @shakatoursuganda with my brada Prince Hannington @hanningtonprince leading the way!

The survival of Africa’s endangered species and other wildlife depends on its relationship with local people helping to protect these great creatures!

Wildlife must survive in their natural habitats, so it’s about empower local communities through conservation friendly development and work with international agencies to protect Africa’s natural resources.

Critical to protecting these vital ecosystems are people. Sharing land across the continent, local communities and wildlife often live alongside each other, leading to struggles for space and water. If people and wildlife learn to live together we can have harmony. Which allows these amazing animal populations to grow!!! The illegal wildlife trade grows increasingly sophisticated.
Anti-poaching initiatives to stop the slaughter of wildlife within Africa’s protected areas have saved some species from further decline. However, to destabilize the international trade that has decimated populations over the last few decades, we need to combat wildlife trafficking and strengthen the prosecution of wildlife crimes in strategic wildlife crime hotspots.

Barn Owl Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotogra

Barn Owl
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Owls live within the darkness, which includes magic, mystery, and ancient knowledge. The owl is nocturnal with keen senses of sight and sound. It sees through the shadows of the night and hears the sounds in the silense; the illusion of the darkness. This teaches us to see past our own illusions and trust our intuition and perceptive senses.

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Barn Owls nest and roost in cavities, abandoned barns and other buildings, and dense trees. At night, Barn Owls hunt by flying low, back and forth over open habitats, searching for small rodents primarily by sound. Barn Owls require large areas of open land over which to hunt. This can either be marsh, grasslands, or mixed agricultural fields. For nesting and roosting, they prefer quiet cavities, either in trees or man-made structures such as barns or silos. @canonusa @apple @photoshop 🤟🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽

Moon Boneyards 🌙 Photographed by @douglasstrat

Moon Boneyards 🌙
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be! 🌝

Be kind out there !! Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. Peace ✌🏽 love ❤️

Douglas

Waves at Lands End Photographed by @douglasstratt

Waves at Lands End
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
This was captured as the sun was setting at the end of the road on Ke'e Beach here on Kauai. This was is a 30ft swell hitting the north shores of the Na Pali Coast. The tide was very low so I could walk farther out on the reef to capture more of the Na Pali cliffs. I kept shooting through my 28-300 @canonusa lens. I could see these waves hitting the reef as the sun's backlighting the wave. A giant set came in but only this wave hit the reef just right and exploded. As I shot I watch this wave through the eye piece and I knew I had scored a moment that I would never forget. Mahalo to the people of Hawaii for sharing these islands and their culture of Aloha! . I will be forever grateful of my time and experiences as a youth that helped my listen to natural world here in Hawaii. The Aloha spirit is one that all cultures races should learn from.
Nature is a gift from God. We are here to enjoy it but also protect these natural environments. This is one reason I can't stand politics and Government. There is nothing above God and his laws not even the laws of man.
As i post this photograph I offer this moment to you. So that you might seek the glory that is nature. Wherever you go, always take something with you as a gift or offering to your fellow man or women. Treat others how you would like to be treated.

The literal meaning of aloha is "the presence of breath" or "the breath of life." It comes from "Alo," meaning presence, front and face, and "ha," meaning breath. Aloha is a way of living and treating each other with love and respect. Its deep meaning starts by teaching ourselves to love our own beings first and afterwards to spread the love to others.

BE KIND OUT THERE IN THIS RAT RACE!

Blessings

Douglas Stratton

mighty of locations. Thank you lord 🙏🏻

Ghost on the Shore Photographed by @douglasstratt

Ghost on the Shore
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

I'm just a man but I know that I'm damned
All the dead seem to know where I am
Till it began on the night of my birth
We'll be done in a turn of the earth
Lie where I land let my bones turn to sand
I was born on the sea and I don't want to leave
Every eye on the coast ever more
Will remember the sight of the ghost on the shore

Shipwrecked Rum Runner Photographed by @douglasstr

Shipwrecked Rum Runner
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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I loved #history as a child and as I travel I experience different places and I learn more about the history that once was in hopes to learn more about the future. They say history repeats itself and I not only believe it the more I travel but you can start to see history repeating itself in today’s events!!! Those that don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it! 🤟🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽

Prior to permanent settlement in 1840, Bimini had been the haunt of pirates in the 1600 and 1700s. Its location on the edge of the Gulf Stream made it a perfect place to engage Spanish galleons laden with treasure on their return route to Spain. Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Morgan and Blackbeard all knew of Bimini. Also, the fresh water pools on South Bimini were useful to the pirates and privateers.

By 1919 Bimini, with its 600 persons, was an island struggling with poverty. The population, both black and white, was locked in an economic depression. However, in 1919 the United States enacted the Volstead Act and the era of prohibition dawned. Now that liquor was illegal in the United States many Americans still wanted to drink. Consequently, alcohol was smuggled into the USA through Canada and The Bahamas.

The British administered Bahama Islands enjoyed the era of US prohibition as it added a great deal of money to the colony's revenues. #Rum runners flooded Bimini with cases and barrels of liquor to be smuggled to the United States. The #island 600 people were now joined by hundreds of rum runners and liquor agents who were making scores of dollars by smuggling booze into America. Bimini was awash with not only booze but also money. The liquor came from Cuba, the Caribbean and especially from Europe. Each bottle imported into the colony was taxed - thus the colony's government made excellent revenue. In Bimini, the locals were engaged in the rum-running trade in every which way. But, the poverty of the past was easily forgotten, as money was plentiful.

Fire in the Sky Photographed by @douglasstrattonp

Fire in the Sky
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Some sunsets in your life you just never forget. After days full of major thunderstorms I watched the sky turn to fire along the Wilmington River just outside of Savannah, GA. As the sun set the winds blow off shore making the clouds roll back. Then the sky lit like a flame into full sunset and the water caught fire. It seem like something out of a dream

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.

Blessings to you

Douglas

🌻 Sunflower 🌻 Photographed by @douglasstratt

🌻 Sunflower 🌻 Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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You're a sunflower
I think your love would be too much !! True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time. In times like these don’t forget to express how you feel! Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

One Love
☝🏽 ❤️

Douglas

Aquarius Photographed by @Douglasstrattonphotogra

Aquarius
Photographed by @Douglasstrattonphotography
Walking along the pristine sugar white and pink sand beaches of Harbour Island is like walking into a dream. This is truly a special place that only those have been can contest to. This afternoon I had the experience of swimming with a horse and his rider. I feel as if horses are divine creatures. They reflect back the emotions you put forth. If you show love respect, kindness, curiosity, the horse will respond the same way. I try and treat everyone and everything I meet the same way. This is why this gentleman agreed to work with me this day. I was always taught to treat others the way you would like to be treated. I don’t care if you are yellow black brown purple green .... you are an ant 🐜 or a King 👑 and every in between 🙏🏽🤙🏽🤘🏽🤟🏽😍... We are all God’s creations and if you are from God I will respect you! God bless you and yours🤟🏽🤙🏽🙏🏽
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Harbour Island in the Bahamas is quietly becoming the crown jewel of the Caribbean. A small island a few miles off of Eleuthera may only be 3 ½ miles long by a half mile wide (at its widest) with fewer than 2,000 residents, but it is jammed packed full of beautiful beaches, pastel painted cottages with picket fences, quaint boutique hotels and restaurants that rival the best found in other culinary hot spots such as St. Barts and Anguilla. Thank you @canonusa ! I’ve been shooting with you for 15 years and it’s been beyond a blessing using your cameras 🎥!! My soul is full of longing
for the secrets of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.
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Douglas 609-675-8498

Moluccan Cockatoo Photographed by @douglasstratto

Moluccan Cockatoo
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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Moluccan cockatoo is a favorite among bird fanciers due to its striking appearance and wonderful temperament. Moluccans are also called salmon-crested cockatoos because of the salmon-pink feathers that comprise most of their head crest, which they will display when they are excited, angry, afraid, or thrilled with something.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird Photographed by @dougla

Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

The ruby-throated hummingbird is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the winter in Central America, Mexico, and Florida, and migrates to North America for the summer to breed.

The hummingbird is so many things in so many ways. It is a bringer of joy, luck, hope, comfort, love, appreciation, enjoyment, independence, freedom, and optimism. A bird of its kind is rare in itself. You would be surprised to know that they possess a rare ability to fly in all directions, including backwards! While nature may have given it this ability to remove its long bill from the flower after relishing the sweet nectar, spiritually it signifies the need to look back in life, cherish the good times of the past, and move forward without any regret or burden. This ability also signifies the quality of agility when it comes to changing one’s path to get in sync with life’s circumstances. And through this change, lift up the negativity that surrounded your hearts. This creature is also known for its vigor and persistence, which inspires us to give our all to pursue and fulfill our dreams and desires.

Be like Ruby my friends 🤟🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽

Rainbow Feathers Photographed by @douglasstratton

Rainbow Feathers
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Shine your soul with the same
egoless humility as the rainbow
and no matter where you go
in this world or the next,
love will find you, attend you, and bless you!
Macaws are known as the giants of the parrot world. The scarlet macaw is a large red, yellow, and blue Central and South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. It is native to humid evergreen forests of tropical Central and South America.
One love 🙏🏽🤟🏽☝🏽❤️ Douglas

Fire on the Bayou Photograhed by @douglasstratton

Fire on the Bayou
Photograhed by @douglasstrattonphotography 🙏🏽 Canon 5D mark 4
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F16

Catch your Fire 🔥 on the Bayou!! 🤟🏽🤘🏽🙏🏽
Thank you @canonusa ! I’ve been shooting with Canon cameras for 17 years now and this is a stitched panorama photograph shot in the largest Bald Cypress forest/ swamp on earth! Caddo Lake you are a dream come true. I new that the best compositions weren’t going to be from land and that the longer exposures I love to shoot to capture these colors were going to need a tripod so I brought a 12 foot tall tripod with me and placed this in the water. This is also the night I met @mudport ! Captain!! The pleasure was mine! I hope to see you soon for an epic tour of Caddo !🙏🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽

Life on Mars Photographed by @douglasstrattonphoto

Life on Mars
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Lunar Landscapes lit by a full Moon

It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling no
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Freedom Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotograp

Freedom
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location: The Ugandan Bush
With Prince Hannington
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Elephants never forget a friend, or an enemy
The memory of elephants is legendary, and for good reason. Elephants remember other elephants and individual humans for years even decades after they last saw them. Today I reflect on my love for all living creatures big and small! I want to help things that don’t have a voice and the animals on this earth are at the bottom of the most people list!
One ☝🏽 Love ❤️ Douglas

Eastern Screech Owl Photographed @douglasstrattonp

Eastern Screech Owl
Photographed @douglasstrattonphotography
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. Let’s remember what is important in times likes these ! Peace ✌🏽 be to you and your family’s!! One Love ☝🏽 ❤️ Douglas
This robin-sized nightbird is common over much of the east, including in city parks and shady suburbs, where many human residents are unaware they have an owl for a neighbor. The owl spends the day roosting in holes or in dense cover, becoming active at dusk. Despite the name, screech-owls do not screech; the voice of this species features whinnies and soft trills.

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