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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 👁 🎥 👁

Gaucho Family Photographed by @douglasstrattonphot

Gaucho Family
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Photographed in Patagonia
On a very remote trip several years ago this photograph was captured right before a big storm in the remote area known as Patagonia in southern Chile 🇨🇱. Ohana' means family and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. Remember who loves you supports you believes in you and who you have trust in! Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today or tomorrow keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.

One Love ❤️ Douglas

Roots Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Roots
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

🇯🇲 Rasta Smile 🇯🇲 by @douglasstrattonp

🇯🇲 Rasta Smile 🇯🇲 by @douglasstrattonphotography
This is one of the fist photographs I took that I remember that I wanted to become a professional photographer 14 years ago in Jamaica. The pure joy of meeting this happy soul and the feel of being on the road. It's in the experience not always easy street that makes these journeys so fulfilling .
May you feel this irie all of your days and especially today!! 🌴🌞🌊 Come on and SMILE in Jamaica 🇯🇲.... thank you @crystalrstudios for making me think of this experience!
#montegobay 🎶 Feeling out, feeling down:
This feeling wouldn't leave me alone.
Then up came-a one that said (hey, Dread):
"Hey, Dread, fly, Natty Dread, and smile!" You're in Jamaica: C'mon and smile!
(In Jamaica, y'all) Get it together, y'all!
(In Jamaica) Get it together, now!
In Jamaica, y'all.

Soulful town, soulful people:
Said, I see you're having fun,
Dancin' to the reggae rhythm,
Oh, island in the sun:
Oh, smile!

The Universe is Indifferent Photographed by @dougl

The Universe is Indifferent
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. 🌊 ⭐️ 🌚 ⭐️ 🌊 🌙 The night is on my mind 🌙 ☀️ The sun'll still shine ☀️ But the night is on my mind!!!

Shipwrecked Tugboat Photographed by @Douglasstratt

Shipwrecked Tugboat
Photographed by @Douglasstrattonphotography

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Many people think that failure is the opposite of success, but in fact, failure is one the same side with success. When you fall it’s how you get back up !
Therefores, becoming more successful has nothing much to do with winning, it is about how you manage to bounce back and not give up when you fall. So Fail forward !! You must learn to conquer the mind. It is your mind that tells you to stop. It is your mind that tells you that it is impossible. It is your mind that tells you that you can’t. And it is your mind that you are where you are right now.

Change your mindset and you will change your action. And when you change your action, you will live a different life. If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream and yourself! People give up because they fail to see the possibility of achieving their dreams. They quit when they stop believing that they can achieve what they want.

So don’t stop believing in yourself and your dreams.

Risen Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Risen
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location: Cashiers, NC
Chimney Top Mountain during sunrise.

Blessing to you and yours during this day of remembrance!! 🙏🏽🤟🏽🙌🏽 Good Friday, according to Christian belief, marks the day that Jesus who is the son of God, or God manifested in human form was crucified and died a human death and on Sunday Jesus was rising from the dead.

Jesus died on the cross as the ultimate act to forgive humanity of its sins and open the gates of heaven. This implies that without Jesus’s self sacrifice, an afterlife for the natural born sinners of the earth would not exist!! For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his!! While on one level Good Friday represents a depressing moment in history, it is also a day of remembrance and gratitude for the love Jesus showed to the people of this world. His willingness to suffer an excruciating, human death in order to save humanity from eternal suffering. That means it's "good" for, who those that have been blessed with eternal life because of Jesus' selflessness and his ultimate sacrifice!
Good Friday had to happen. It was why Jesus was born. He gave his life and shed His blood to cover our sins. Resserrection Sunday shows us that God has power over everything, even death. We now can have an ever lasting life also if we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Starlighting Photographed by @douglasstrattonphoto

Starlighting
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

# feel free to share comment etc ——-)))>>> In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself! Be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whatever they do prospers!!! For when we are at rest we gain the entire strength to move past all obstacles for obstacles do not block the path, they are the path! The best is yet to come !!!!🤟🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽🔥

Stairway To Heaven Bramante Staircase The Vatican

Stairway To Heaven
Bramante Staircase The Vatican -Vatican City
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography When someone dies, an angel is there to meet them at the gates of Heaven to let them know that their life has just begun.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye 👁 👁 💧 👁 Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Stop dwelling on a future not yet told and look around you and count your blessings ! Nurture them at this time and help them to grow for the simplest things we forget about can be the most important. God bless you and yours during these turbulent times.

Douglas Stratton

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 🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🙌🏽🤟🏽🔥🌎☀️🦊🦅🦉🦇🐝🐒🐸🐺🐗🐴🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🦂🕸🕷🦗🦟🐢🐙🐡🐠🦑🐍🦎🦐🐟🐬🦞🦀🐳🐬🐟🐋🦈🐊🐅🐆🐘🦧🦍🦓🦏🐪🐫🦒🦘🦛🐖🐎🐄🐂🐃🐏🐑🦙🐐🦌🐈🦢🦜🦚🐕🐓🦃🦩🕊🐇🦝🦨🐀🐁🦥🦦🦡🐿🦔🌿🌴🍄🍁🍃🎋🐚🌺🌞🌚🌜💫🌙🪐🌏⭐️🌚⚡️🌈🌪💧

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