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BP Oil Spill
BP Oil Spill 1 Year Anniversary Benefit Shows at House of Blues and Tipitinas Downtown
Spent the greater part of the evening yesterday, 4-21-11, runnin around downtown checkin out some great music at Lafayette Square with Anders, at the House of Blues A Benefit concert for Harmony For Health with Kevin Costner and the Voice of the Wetlands Allstars, with special guest Allen Toussaint, and slippin over to talk with [...]
New Oil Slick immediately off the coast of Grand Isle Louisiana
On March 18, 2011, I took a flight over the Gulf Coast with Bonny Schumaker of On Wings of Care, http://onwingsofcare.org/ from Horn Island Mississippi all the way to Raccoon Island to check on the status of wildlife, marshes, and other impacts from the BP Oil Spill. When we were slightly east of Grand Isle [...]
Ocean Springs revisited February 23 2011 not much has changed
I made a return trip to Ocean Spring’s Mississippi this week on 2/23/11 to see how things looked 10 months after the BP Oil spill. All of these images were taken in the area of Lat 30,21.8599N Long 88,46.123W and each image contains the specific coordinates in the metadata. In the news this week there [...]
Horn Island Sampling and UV Night Photography February 17th 2011 exposes extent of BP Oil Contamination
Last Thursday, 2/17/2011, I made a return trip to Horn Island with Jim Stiles and Strongbear of Boston Chemical Data to do extensive sampling over a large area of the island. Once again and to no surprise, the beach surface and subsurface was littered with tar balls both large and small, and residue from the [...]
Mississippi Coast UV Lighting and Sampling week of October 19
Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with my Sea Shepherd friends on the coast of Mississippi doing some sampling along the beaches and on the barrier islands along with photographing beaches at night using a powerful UV lighting system. The whole experience was “illuminating” to say the least. UV lighting illuminates or [...]
Trip to Grand Isle Louisiana Fish Kill October 21
All of these images are in the area of Long 29.199 N Lat 90.042 W. Headed down to Grand Isle La. For the first time in a few weeks primarily to document progress that has or has not been made since the BP oil Spill. Earlier this week I received some information regarding a possible [...]
Whale Shark Search in the Gulf with Sea Shepherd
This past Saturday, 9/4/10, I had the pleasure of joining pilot Bonny Schumaker (of OnWingsOfCare.org), Jim Franks, a longtime marine biologist at GCRL, and the Sea Shepherds on an aerial tour of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, primarily in search of Whale Sharks for status reports and to hopefully tag . “The whale-shark spotting and [...]
Trip to mississippi Sound with Sea Shepherds
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ On 9-1-10, I teamed up with Sea Shepherd for some water sampling in the Mississippi Sound, around Cat and Ship Island. Additionally I was able to check out the beaches in Bay St. Louis and Long Beach Miss. and did take [...]
Ocean Springs Mississippi August 30
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ 8/30/10 All images in the area of Lat 30,21.8181N Long 88,46.086W , specific GPS data is embedded in each image. Accompanied by Charles Harmison, I visited Ocean Springs Beach again, to collect additional water and soil samples to test for Marco [...]
Horn Island August 9th Dispersant and Oil
These images were taken on August 9, 2010 on our trip to Horn Island accompanied by members of Boston Chemical including Mr. Strongbear. We traveled by boat to Horn Island out of Biloxi, Mississippi and sampled both on the sound side(south) of the island where we found large and small tar balls and patties, in [...]
Barataria Bay August 24
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ 8/24/10 Barataria Bay, La. Images all in area of Lat 29,26.2183N Long 89,50.1794W, Continuing the sampling of the gulf coast with Boston Chemical Data, www.labs.pro, accompanied by Strongbear, Brian Moore from Boston Chemical and Boat Captain Al Walker and Tracy Palmisano. [...]
Ocean Springs Mississippi August 21
All images taken 8/21/10 in Ocean Springs Miss., Lat. 30,21.7755N Long 88,46.0167W, specific locations are embedded in the meta data. All images are taken on the beach in Ocean Springs, straight North of the western tip of Horn Island. I was accompanied by Lorrie and Bubba Williams who are local fishermen, specifically crabbers. It is [...]
Another Unforgettable trip to Raccoon Island August 8
All images in vicinity of Lat 29,3.0279N Long 90,55.6074W. Specific locations for each image is embedded in the meta data. We revisited Raccoon Island on August 8 to find more of the same from my visit on July 18, the difference this time was that there were not as many birds…… probably at least 60% [...]
Trip to Grand Isle and Timbalier Bay July 29
These are a few of the pics from our visit July 29th(you know, the day they announced no oil anywhere, all gone…evaporated…) that I have been able to get to, contrary to all reports we saw oil on and off shore, especially thick in the Timbalier Bay area, so much so that all canal entrances [...]
Support On Wings of Care
Another invaluable partner in my documentation of the BP OIL Spill from the air is Bonny Shumaker “The Passionate Fearless Pilot” Ph.D., ATP, CFI-AIM Founder of non profit On Wings of Care, where all donations go to the fulfillment of the nonprofit mission of OnWingsOfCare.org“ promoting the welfare of wildlife and their habitats by helping [...]
Unforgettable trip to Raccoon Island July 18
Yesterday is a day I will not forget anytime soon. I took a boat trip to Raccoon Island, which is about 20 miles south of Cocodrie, with a photog friend of mine Andy Levin. While covering the BP Oil Spill, Disaster, whatever they want to call it, from Venice to Fouchon over the past two [...]
Fly over BP Oil Spill site July 12
Nothing to surprising on fly over today, went straight out to site, then back up east Plaquemines Parish up to Point a la Hache, then out to Chandelier Islands, basically the sheen and oil is everywhere, very strange color, metallic green perhaps, big difference today was there was no blue water to be seen, all [...]
Trip to Grand Isle July 7 around the marsh impact from BP Oil Spill
Went down to Grand Isle yesterday with a film crew I am working with and some new friends…Wallace J. Nichols (Turtles.org) and Dr. Chris Pintecich, this is a video from an island east of Grand Isle on the gulf, one of the that the BP Oil spill has destroyed………..Once again it seems that is the [...]
BP Oil Disaster from a Pelicans View
On my trip to the site this am, I don’t know what I expected to see that would surprise me, kinda beyond shockable at this point……..I did find it to be one of the more surreal experiences I’ve had in a long while…Basically the gulf looks like someone took a hammer and smashed it all [...]
Trip with Wildlife and Fisheries Pelican Rescue Grand Isle BP Oil Soil July 2
Images from trip this morning to Queen Bess Island and Cat Island east of Grand Isle……..My initial feelings on what In saw out there were pretty disturbed, but happy to see that the young pelicans I met a couple weeks ago had grown, at least the ones left……….but now that I look at the stills, [...]
Impact of BP Oil Spill on Grand Isle during Hurricane Alex July 28 and 30
6-30 Still too rough yesterday to go out on a boat, generally the impact of that 20 mile long patch of oil that was off the coast of Grand Isle was at this point, somewhat visually muted……the surf seems to have broken it up pretty good, except at Fourchon about 5 miles away where heavy [...]
BP OIL IMPACT ON LOUISIANA MARSHES BOOMS DO NOT WORK
6-26 From the videographer. “This was the most emotionally disturbing video I have ever done! A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all around it’s blow hole. Please spread this around the world. Send [...]
BP Images from Venice Louisiana June 1
There is another post with more images after you see this one, click Bayou above, that will bring you to my home page, the first 2 posts are BP Oil Disaster related…. 6/8 Plan to head back to Grand Isle this weekend if not sooner, and Cocodrie early next week, would be out every day, [...]
Images images from Grand Isle and Fourchon May 25 and 28
My Complete coverage of the BP Oil disaster can be found at this link http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ Some image galleries contain more than one page f images, please be sure to scroll through the pages of galleries if available. There are 3 pages of images, page turners right above the videos… Made 2 trips down to Grand [...]