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New Orleans Hamburger and Seafood New Location on St Charles AveHere are the final images for one of my corporate clients New Orleans Hamburger and Seafood Co. The new restaurant will open next month on Marengo and St. Charles(Old Canons Location) This will be my third store to decorate with beautiful 24×36 framed prints, the first two were the Laplace and Mandeville locations. Trip to mississippi Sound with Sea ShepherdsSee 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 some water samples where that oh so familiar dispersant foam appeared. Horn Island August 9th Dispersant and OilThese 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 the area of lat 30,14.91N, long 88,42.0947W, all images have specific locations embedded in meta data. When leaving the shore to go to the gulf side, the boat motor actually stirred up some oil residue from the sea floor, creating brown colored bubbles on the surface, similar to Barataria bay, but not as thick. On the gulf side, east end of the island, lat 30,14.5535N, long 88,43.3291W, we found the beach to be covered in thousands of tar balls, and still washing up in the surf. On our way in we ran across a large slick of what was confirmed to be dispersant or corexit foam and a rainbow colored oil slick, lat 30,17.2609 long 88,46.5829W, all images have specific locations embedded in meta data. Birds were actually diving into this toxic oil and foam concoction.
See the rest of my coverage from mid may up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ 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% less but just as much death if not more. Pelicans, Seagulls, Bull Redfish, Drum….you name it it was dead on the beach. Oil had hit Raccoon Island last week and the island was obviously manicured, BP had set up tents on the 2 adjoining Islands. All of the boom that was on the island and on top the jetties was gone, and the island was flat where it once had a more natural terrain….two of the pelicans had died very recently, and it was most disturbing that one of them was hooked to a sparkle beetle which was tangled in dead mangrove…….I have no doubt that either Wildlife and Fisheries or BP workers had to have seen this Pelican while alive and just left him there to die. A lot of the dead birds stomach cavities were open and a brown sludge covered the inside, with the scent of oil……necropsies will be performed on the specimens retrieved. We also took a specimen of the green sludge the birds were drinking out of in the middle of the island.
This is a report done with Nancy Parker and FOX 8 New Orleans after my last visit, you would think things might have changed, even a little…. 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, I am speechless at what I see now, that I could not see from the distance we were shooting from……I really don’t have anything constructive to say right now….except that our guides from the Wildlife and Fisheries and Boat captain were most helpful in making sure we saw what we needed too, thanks guys!
Probably in response to the "exposed" results of the storm, BP is now trying to keep media even further away from their work...."Coast Guard now enforcing 65 foot distance from any booms on the beaches or in the water including media.....this will make it even harder to photograph the oil spill. This would mean that almost every photograph I have taken the last two weeks could result in a Class D felony....this is absolutely a completely unnecessary restriction of the right of civilians to document the pollution of American waterways and beaches." To add insult to injury, this gives you a good idea of how many layers the beach has been covered with by the workers....I wonder where they are getting all the new sand literally packed with the shells of dead sea critters.......
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