Photographer Rick Stratman was born in Ohio and has lived in Michigan for nearly twenty-five years. He has been photographing travel and nature subjects for thirty years. His photographs reflect the diversity of his subjects, from the sandhill cranes standing in a Michigan lake in the early morning fog, to the solemn Easter procession in Guatemala during Holy Week, to the intricate patterns of a paper Japanese umbrella in a Kyoto tea garden.

The objective of his photography is to share the beauty of the natural world and the diversity of cultures with the viewer; and to convey a sense of place and the excitement that he experienced at the time the image was created.