Native Orleanian Fine Photography the photography of Jerry Moran
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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…. There are 3 pages of images, page turners right above the videos… Made 2 trips down to Grand Isle last week, the first [...]