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douglasstrattonphotography

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

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Maroon Bells Bliss
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography -The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask. Peak of the Aspen Tress fall foliage here at Maroon Bell. One aspen tree is actually only a small part of a larger organism. A stand or group of aspen trees is considered a singular organism with the main life force underground in the extensive root system. Before a single aspen trunk appears above the surface, the root system may lie dormant for many years until the conditions are just right, including sufficient sunlight. In a single stand, each tree is a genetic replicate of the other, hence the name a “clone” of aspens used to describe a stand.

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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe but take ACTION!!! Get busy living!! Print Sizes
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Pieces of Dreams
A moving energy force can entertain the eye with its irregular patterns but the energy of the mind is the essence of life. 💧
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@douglasstrattonphotography & @merrell_thompson

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Aspen On Fire 🔥
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
#People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

#All of aspens typically grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling, and spread by means of root suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 98–131 ft from the parent tree. Each individual tree can live for 40–150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years, sending up new trunks as the older trunks die off above ground.

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Autumn Blessings
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Dry Falls at the peak of the autumn foliage in Highlands, North Carolina
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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

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Southern Love
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
I love all Trees but Live Oaks are my favorite ❤️!!
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It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies so if you know where you are from, it is harder for people to stop you where you are going!! Have big dreams my friends and hold on to them!! You can do anything your hearts can imagine!
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There’s an odd mystique that surrounds southern live oaks. They are iconic for their strength, endurance and longevity, and in many ways, they mirror the best qualities of the pioneering individuals and families who endured natural forces to survive and thrive in the South.

However, a large part of the oaks’ mystique is due to their great age. A single member of the species can live a half-dozen human generations or more or in this case 500 years old. Their looming centenarian presence in a community can make them an integral part of the history and spirit of that place. The old oaks are local landmarks. By the sight of a familiar oak, you know where you are and how far you have to go to reach your destination. They are old friends, living shelters, ecosystems and shady spots where neighbors might enjoy a glass of southern sweet tea and pass the hottest hours of a blazing summer’s day.

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Time with the Ancients
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
#Time is the longest distance between two places

A 600 year old Bald Cypress Tree stands below the milky in all its glory and amazement.

To get this shot I rigged a 12’ tripod in this lake at night in the pitch black dark and light painted this Blade Cypress tree. Thanks to @canonusa this was shot with a Canon 5D mark 4 along with my favorite lens the canon EF 14mm 2.8 lens. I love it when a plan comes together 🙏🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽 ###
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Bald Cypress Roots
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
# a 700 year old Bald Cypress tree standing in the waters of Caddo Lake in Uncertain, TX
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
-Marcus Garvey

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Southern Shelter
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old.

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Fire on the Bayou
Photograhed by @douglasstrattonphotography 🙏🏽 Canon 5D mark 4
ISO 100
F16

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 !🙏🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽 ###
I got swamp water runnin' through my veins
The Mississippi river can't be tamed
I pole my pirogue in the middle of the night
I'm an uptown ruler, I can do it right

Wish, I was back on the bayou
Rollin' with some Cajun Queen
Wishin' I were a fast freight train
Just a chooglin' on down to New Orleans

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The Great White Egret
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location : Caddo Lake
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.

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BTS - Fire on the Bayou
Note to self ... bring really tall tripods to more lakes! This is the shot I came here for!! 🙏🏽🤙🏽🤟🏽 thank you @canonusa , #CoddaLake and Uncertain, TX 🤯🤯🤯☀️😝🎨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #Fire on the #bayou

I got a nickel now, you got a dime
Let's get together and have a good time

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BTS Photographing Birds with the 500mm lens by @canonusa #caddolake

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BTS Shooting Bald Cypress Trees

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Everlasting Light
photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

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Galaxy Castaway
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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 💕🤟🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽🙏🏽

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Bahama Paradise
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing in the dream 🤙🏽 So drop all secrets into the sea 🌊

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Lunar Lights
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Use the moon as your key light and anything can happening.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them so be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire!! Keep exploring and discovering new ideas 💡 and locations.

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Tunnel Visions
Series: The Underground
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Enjoy the ride of life and make a difference in those you meet along the way... 🤙🏽 ##
My Name is #DouglasStratton... I didn't chose this life this life chose me.... Since I was a child I have always had an over the top creative imagination. Some people believed I had A.D.D. or a mild form of dyslexia during my schooling years. I do know that my imagination has given me the ability to form new images and #sensations in my mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses.
One way I share my #abstract thought processes is by capturing moments through my travels. I captured this image in my mind first by riding through a #subway in #Copenhagen. As i moved faster and faster I could feel the walls blending together. I thought with the right set up this could be an amazing capture... One that could strike an #emotion. What happened next was #bliss... #Camera setup Info:
Camera #Canon EOS-1D X on a tripod
Focal Length 40mm
Shutter Speed 4s
Aperture f/6.3
ISO 100

#underground #longexposure #neverstopexploring #urbanlife #travelingwithoutmoving

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Lands End Boneyard
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
With enough love to light up the sky! I captured this photograph at 8am among the ghost on the shore. This was after a week of hard rains that seemed to never end. I love seeing a new day begin but what's better then being with the live oaks and the sounds of the sea. Listen to the sea because the sea wil set you free!
#sea #seascape #savannah #charleston #peaceful #blessed #beachlife #neverstopexploring #edisto

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Everlasting Light
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Being in the middle of the Pacific on the North Shore of Oahu listening to the sounds of the waves is food for your soul. I was blessed one day to be at Velzyland with some of the most kind hearted people I know. I couldn't sleep after an 8 hour flight so I decided to walk the beach here. These stars where my everlasting light. The sun when there is none.... #Velzyland #oahu #Hawaii #Northshore #Starlight #Mahoalo #aloha #nightphotography

Thank you to the past,
Cheers to the future as we live in the now!

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

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