Native Orleanian Fine Photography the photography of Jerry Moran
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]