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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 👁 🎥 👁

Astronomy series Photographed by @douglasstratton

Astronomy series
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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Let’s reach for the stars !

# What dreams may come ? What are your dreams ?👁👁 these photos are some of my past dreams... I dreamed each of these ideas and or concepts before I picked up a camera. It’s when we take actions towards these ideas when the real magic happens!! This is what I’ve created but the best is yet to come !

No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you. I had to learn this the hard way like so many other people but the journey is the real lesson! There has never been another you on this earth so then why would you try to be another person. It’s in being true to ourselves and our loved ones that we find ourselves and live our dreams!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

One love

Douglas

Fire in the Sky A collection of sunrise and suns

Fire in the Sky

A collection of sunrise and sunset to set your soul on fire! Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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Is there anything more peaceful then taking in the quiet beauty of the setting sun? As the sun descends below the horizon, creating romantic shades of red and orange across the sky, the world has a chance to breathe in and rejuvenate. While sunsets are a literal end to a day, they've also become symbols of peace, harmony, and the promise of renewal. Sunsets are a great reminder to rest and reset our hearts and minds at the end of each and every day

Enchanting Landscapes Photographed by @douglasstr

Enchanting Landscapes
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Pleas scroll and see this collection of God’s masterpieces !! Thank you and blessinvto you and yours !! 2021🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire! I have been blessed to see the world differently. When I was young I would enjoy being by myself walking the beach of my little home town of Ocean City, New Jersey. I lived steps from the marsh and a couple blocks from the ocean. At this young age I feel in love with the ocean 🌊. I used to play in the surf all day long and when the sun would rise or set I didn’t want to miss the intimate moments of light ! Again at this young age I just enjoyed it but didn’t know later on my life it would be therapy.

Nature is the therapy And I am a free Aquarian spirit!
I love nature ! I see a great creator and God in these moments above and from what I’ve seen and experienced on this earth I find it hard to see why others don’t believe in some type of higher power.

Ecotherapy, also known as nature therapy, is a therapeutic practice that focuses on the belief that time spent in nature can have a positive impact on both the body the mind a d the souL!

Portrait photographs of the Great American South W

Portrait photographs of the Great American South West! Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... Have you ever explore the great American sw? It truly is the greatest landscape or landscapes in all this vast and beautiful country! There is nothing like it! Blessing and gratitude go out to the indigenous tribes that call these great landscapes home! We have so much to learn from your great cultures and your ways of life !

When you wish upon a star ... Portrait Astronomy

When you wish upon a star ...
Portrait Astronomy Photographs by @douglasstrattonphotography

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Scroll me !! Which is your favorite capture ? Where do you think I found these epic moments of Gods greatest gifts ? Nature!!!!

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
Now that we are close to ending a strange and insane year... I look forward to the future! Thank you for the past! As we live in the moment but plan for the future!!!!
What is my future look like ? What does your future look like? Let’s get busy!!!

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If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. The corollary is that, once you have your destination in mind, you can plan your route. Five years is the perfect timeframe: It’s not so far in the future that you can’t imagine yourself there, but it’s not so close that you can’t do anything about it.
What are your goals? What is your 1 year your 5 year and 10 year goals! End of the year makes it’s time to set goals ... we can’t just imagine these goals and plans for our life. We need to write them down. Focus on them and put actions to make these dreams and aspirations come to fruition!!

Let’s get busy living dreaming and thriving 🤟🏽🙌🏽☝🏽

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Douglas

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Secrets of Silence American South West Photograph

Secrets of Silence
American South West
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Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Lofoten Island Archipelago Photographed by @dougla

Lofoten Island Archipelago
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location: Norway’s Lofoten Island islands

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The seaside wooden huts of the Lofoten Islands are called Rorbuer. They have a steeped in tradition, once housing scores of hardened fishermen who made the winter pilgrimage to the world’s most fertile cod fishing grounds. Fish are still the basis of all human settlement on Lofoten, but beginning in the 1960’s a number of the huts have been converted into accommodation for travelers. Visiting the Lofoten Islands and staying in a rorbu makes an already extraordinary experience even more distinctive.

The first Rorbu cabins in Lofoten were commissioned by King Øystein in 1120 as housing for the fishermen during the Lofoten fishing season. The cabins were simple structures, built on poles partly out in the sea and usually comprising two rooms: a storage room and a living room with beds. The storage room was used to store food and fishing equipment, and for preparations for a new day on the waters around Lofoten.

Cod fishing has been the economic lifeline of Lofoten for more than one thousand years. At one point, the Lofoten islands were the primary source of cod for all of mainland Europe. Fishing is still important to the economy (you can see codfish drying on wooden racks in many of the small villages), but tourism contributes more and more dollars to Lofoten every year. As a result, many rorbuer have been converted to tourist accommodations. Comfort levels span the entire spectrum, from basic and spartan all the way to luxurious.

Black and Whites Landscapes Get busy living, or g

Black and Whites Landscapes

Get busy living, or get busy dying!! The world is yours 👁👁

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Infinity Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotogra

Infinity
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No rat race here!! Fallin', dreamin', talkin' in your sleep.... Lonely nights under the American Southwest Sky littered with billions of ✨ stars ✨ isn’t wasted time 🕛🙏🏼🤘🏼🤙🏼🙌🏼. This massive stitched panorama shot away from the rest of the world 🌎 was created by using LED light panels to #lightpaint the under belly of this natural bridge of #redrock. I waited and watched the full moon set which revealed the milkyway in all it’s glory here in desert the 🌵filed with Peace and wonderment.
Good must conquer evil and truth will set me free
So you see that somewhere I have found the key
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This goes out to the music makers, And you the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; You movers and shakers.... dream on and let nothing hold you back...🙏🏼

Dreaming of Lands End Photographed by @douglasstr

Dreaming of Lands End
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotograohy
Location: Lands End aka Lovers Beach Cabo San Lucas Baja Mexico 🇲🇽
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After all of this time
After all of these seasons
After your one decision
To go to the water for reason
Now it's only the ocean and you
All of these lines
Will all be erased soon
They go out with the tide
Then come back with the waves
It's only the ocean and you
You don't want
You don't wait
You don't love
But you don't hate
You just roll over me
And you pull me in
When this work is done
And this coat is dry
When this world is too much
It will be
Only the ocean and me
When these sails go up
Mountains fade away
Stars come out
I'm finally free…

Cabo San Lucas history has been forming and evolving for millions of years. The jagged rocks that make up the natural landscape date back up to 30 million years ago. Land’s End is the name of the famous granite rock formation that extends off the tip of the Baja Peninsula, marking where the land literally ends and meets the sea. It has become one of the most famous Cabo San Lucas historical sites where you can look out at sea and imagine the awe it has inspired for thousands of years. The first people in Los Cabos history to gaze out upon Land’s End were the Pericúes, an indigenous tribe that sailed and fished on the sea. According to Cabo San Lucas history facts and estimates, the Pericúes arrived there around 13,000 BCE. Sadly, the group has been culturally and linguistically extinct since the end of the 1700s. The information we do have about them largely comes from Spanish conquistadors’ and Jesuit priests’ records. In the history of Cabo San Lucas Mexico, the European mostly viewed them as savages to be converted or conquered, however, nowadays, the indigenous groups of Mexico are celebrated for their unique cultures and intuitive ways.

Soul Fire 🔥 Photographed by @douglasstrattonph

Soul Fire 🔥
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Soul Fire 🔥
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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Mahalo to the Hawaiian people for sharing these islands. The American Government stole these islands from the indigenous Hawaiian’s. I love and respect the Aloha Spirit and Hawaiian culture. I wish so my others shared these same principles. Aloha 🙏🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽 Practice Aloha Around The World:

You don't have to live in Hawaii or even be Hawaiian to embrace the Aloha Spirit.

Aloha can be found in the most surprising places at the most unlikely times. You just have to have an open heart and mind to recognize it!

Towards the beginning of the Hawaiian archipelago lives a small, rainy island called Kauai. Known as the Garden Island. Kauai is home to wildly verdant landscapes, oxygen rich air, and utter serenity. While I was on Kauai I would come to this location almost daily hoping for an epic sunset. One day I witnessed this massive band of clouds coming together as the sun was dipping below the horizon. I was standing knee deep in the Pacific Ocean with the palms of my feet feeling the reef. All while looking down my favorite landscape of all The Na Pali Coast. Experiences like this bring energy into my soul. My heart, soul and eyes desire to not only witness these types of views but I feel as if it is food for my soul.
Like other Hawaiian islands, Kauai formed over a hot spot, or magma plume. As tectonic forces moved the island off the hot spot, its volcanic fires cooled. Kauai, the oldest of the major Hawaiian islands, is the remnant of a shield volcano that formed about five million years ago. The first settlers of Kauai are believed to be Marquesans and other Polynesians that sailed to Hawaii around 500 A.D. With no guidance but the stars and the trade winds, it is a testament to their navigational skills that they found the Hawaiian 🌺 island chain in the middle of the great Pacific.

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Stairway To Heaven Bramante Staircase The Vatican

Stairway To Heaven
Bramante Staircase The Vatican -Vatican City
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An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”

He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

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Hells Gate Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotog

Hells Gate
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The Underground series
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To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.

... What is the mind without the heart
What am I without my shadow
What is life without knowing that death comes ..

Needed to search myself to go back.. Had no signs of hope before lost in the darkness
Not knowing what my fate makes of me
And oh ignoring the fellowship accompanying me
There were swamps, slums, gottas, brunks, love songs,
Hidden pleasure, ignored passion, secret worship,
Quiet movement and undissolved self loving
Now I know God has brought me here for something

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Aspens on Fire 🔥 Photographed by Douglas Stra

Aspens on Fire 🔥

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On location Yellstone NP
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People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression are the one’s you should never allow to walk out.

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.

Maroon Bells Bliss Photographed by Douglas Stratt

Maroon Bells Bliss
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The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask. Peak of the Aspen Tress fall foliage here at Maroon Bells. 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!!

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Autumn Blessings - Dry Falls Panorama Photographe

Autumn Blessings - Dry Falls Panorama
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Dry Falls at the peak of the autumn foliage in Highlands, North Carolina

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Captured 2019
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Eventually, all things merge 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 the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn

Andalusian Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotogr

Andalusian
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The Andalusian, also known as the Pure Spanish Horse or PRE, is a horse breed from the Iberian Peninsula, where its ancestors have lived for thousands of years. The Andalusian has been recognized as a distinct breed since the 15th century, and its conformation has changed very little over the centuries.

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being.

Wings of a Falcon Photographed by @douglasstratton

Wings of a Falcon
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Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were saker falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.

Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer."

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle."

The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?"

With head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch of the tree where the bird was sitting."

Moral :-
We are all made to fly - to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of flight

African Grey Parrot Photographed by @douglasstratt

African Grey Parrot
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Two species of African Grey Parrots, obviously native to Africa, are commonly found in captivity: the Congo with a bright red tail and the
Timneh with duller coloration. Most free-ranging species are considered threatened or endangered and efforts to protect these birds have resulted in
a ban on importation for pet purposes in the United States. High quality companion birds are available from breeders. Research has shown that
African Greys are capable of actual reasoning and verbal communication (beyond just mimicking). Some researchers even believe African Greys have
show intelligence levels equal to a 13-year-old human. There is some speculation that males imprinted on humans may have difficulty in relating
to a female bird; exposure to parent birds during rearing may reduce this tendency. Once initiated, African Greys are prolific breeders and the
offspring are easy to hand-raise.

Harris Hawk Photographed by @douglasstrattonphoto

Harris Hawk
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I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly. When the world cancels you... Don’t forget to spread your wings ... You still can fly.. you just stopped trying!! Don’t forget how to fly !!

Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), formerly known as the bay-winged hawk or dusky hawk, and known in Latin America as peuco, is a medium-large bird of prey that breeds from the southwestern United States south to Chile, central Argentina, and Brazil. Birds are sometimes reported at large in Western Europe, especially Britain, but it is a popular species in falconry and these records almost certainly all refer to escapes from captivity.

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