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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 👁 🎥 👁

Wildlife Series “Color” Photographed by @dou

Wildlife Series
“Color”
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

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Do you love animals and all different species of wildlife ? I sure do! What is your favorite animal or if you could be one what would you be ? I would have to be a falcon! Fastest flying animal on earth 🌏!

From the wilds of Africa to the forest of Georgia.... From the Arctic to the Bahamas... From the marshlands of France to the Rockies of Colorado. I have loved you !

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Edited on @apple @adobe @photoshop @lightroom

Eye of Fire 🔥 and Ice 🧊 photographed by @do

Eye of Fire 🔥 and Ice 🧊
photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Catch that fire 🔥 thats in your soul and make your purpose a reality!!
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After shooting for a while at night in Arches it started to snow and so I thought where would I want to make wake up for sunrise ? Yep! As I drove up the mountain the snow came down harder and harder .. I was so stoked to wake up here and as I did it didn’t look at if the sun was going to show itself but when it did 🔥🔥🔥!

Sometimes you get once in a lifetime opportunities and today the Gods where good to me !!

It's one life to live, so live it the best you can!!

I pray for the ones listening right now
Struggling, feel like giving up right now
I pray for you!!
Pray that you come back home
I pray that you understand that you're never alone
Pray for peace, I pray for change
Keep on praying when everything stays the same

And I pray for my friends and my enemies!!!

Shot with @canonusa
Fstop 9
Focal Length 14mm
Iso 100

Edited with @adobe @photoshop
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Nomadic collection
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Photographed you @douglasstrattonphotography

Are you experienced? Where do you want to travel next?

My religion is to live and die without regret. I am far from perfect ... but no one is !

I learn and desire to see new and different horizons daily! I love the road less traveled but for me it’s about that light! When is the lighting perfect for this location? Every place I’ve been can become a capture if the lighting is right and if I see it happening .

One of my favorite quotes of all time is short and simple but the man who said it was the complete opposite of that! Jimi Hendrix asked us if we are experienced! Are you ? Are you living the life of what you really want to experience? Are you working or changing the patterns of life to create that life ... the life you want and the day to day you want to experience? I know I am working endlessly and breaking the chains of old habits that kept me from being my authentic self or my true self ... I am grateful for my mistakes and my failures because I have learned from them! I learn from everything and as I learn I become more experienced!

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Eye 👁 of Yéi ( God ) in Navajo Photographed

Eye 👁 of Yéi ( God ) in Navajo
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

The word for constellations in Navajo is "So' Dine'é" or "Star People." As with Greek astronomy, certain star configurations represent images that have associated stories & meanings attached to them.

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Which photograph do you like more ?

This was shot as a Timelapse and I used battery powered LED lights to light the underbelly of the beast.

@canonusa Camera 5D Mark 4
Lens Wide angle 14mm
FStop 2.8
Shutter 20 secs
iso 1600

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PS Get your ass to Mars ! If you are looking to rent a dope mercedes Benz Sprint van in Moab hit up @mmntm.us

Josh is the man and his ride is the best camper van I’ve ever seen 👁🔥👁

Spirit of the Wild Photographed by @douglasstratt

Spirit of the Wild
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
Location: Wild Horses on Navajo reservation
With @woodybigthumb
Are you free ? What does the spirit of freedom mean to you?

Wild Horse symbolizes freedom, travel, stamina, intuition, and adventure.
Wild Horses love adventure and travel, knowing they have the ability to choose and change anything in their life.
Your wild freedom can be harnessed in a non-controlling way by recognizing that your true power is your ability to understand that everyone’s life path is valid.
We can’t all authentically go in the same direction. Horses can intuitively feel the insecurities or confidence in others. Use this as an invitation to know how to be most approachable to others so that you can help us all rise together.
Open yourself to others, but fortify your mind so you’re not taking on others’ feelings as your own.
Wild Horse asks if you’re feeling constricted. Who or what is keeping you from reaching your true potential?

Ancient Earth Photographed by @douglasstrattonphot

Ancient Earth
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. ...

Be kind out there my friends dream on !!

Have you ever been to a landscape like this ? Who wants to come back with me and see this on my next adventurers of the Colorado Plateau

Douglas

The Dragon 🐉 Spine Photographed by @douglasst

The Dragon 🐉 Spine

Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

Your life can change on a dime and I would have to say mine as more times then I can remember. The good the bad and the ugly will all happened to you. Life will happen to you and it’s those that fight and have endless work ethic and grit are the ones that have the ability to overcome life’s obstacle challenges Adversity! successful people have gone through difficulties and setbacks just like the rest of us. The main difference is that most of them have one common characteristic, and that is resilience.

This is who you are today !! What is in you to become greater then you are today?! I am thankful for adversity because in my uncomfort I find see my grit which leads me to growth !! Grow my friends!!

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.🔥🔥🔥🔥

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William Shakespeare

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 🤟🏽🙌🏽☝🏽

One Love

Douglas

Thank you to @Apple @adobe @lightroom @canonusa @maccomputers101

Secrets of Silence American South West Photograph

Secrets of Silence
American South West
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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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
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography

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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
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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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
Photographed by @douglasstrattonphotography
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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