Faces of the Gulf or summer vacation in 105

catfish and a sea trout

Cocodre shrimp fleet, now all working for BP on the Oil Spill

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Theresa's Seafood, Closed, St Bernard Parish

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Running around the Gulf Coast with cameras and lighting in 105 degree heat index ain't so bad if you have a little funding and some cool beer in your 12 volt cooler.

These are some of our own

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Gulf Family Catfishing off the Morgan City Docks

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Donated Frozen Dorado arrives at the shut down Ameripure Oyster Packing Company, Franklin

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Kids playing in the Motel Pool rather than across the street in the Gulf of Mexico, Biloxi Beach

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Garden City General Store, a fixture for 100 years, sees times slow down with fishing industry taking a beating. The gulf region 100 miles inland is heavily invested in- and tied to- fishing.

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A closed BP gas station in Theodore, near the bird clean up facility where Joe Biden spoke

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Driving along I-10, and the more intimate and local Rt 90

- from Pensacola to Biloxi, Gulfport to Theodore, Bayou Le Batre to St Bernard Parish, Morgan City to Franklin-

hunting for Faces to Snap, a very limited budget in a gas guzzler humping too much portrait gear, a DNA swabber's dream in each cheap motel, and no A/C

sound like fun?

you bet!

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A shrimp boat crewman, Gulfport, now a BP "Vessel of Opportunity" worker, repairing genset

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Ameripure Oyster Packing Employee, Out of Work as the company has shut down due to spill

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Shrimper crewman, Biloxi Beach, now working for BP on a "Vessel of Opportunity". There are perhaps 4500 shrimpers in LA area, of which 400 or so have been hired on by BP as "Vessels of Opportunity". Many out of work shrimpers have taken BP safety courses to enable them to work on the clean up in this way, but BP only has needed a limited number (10%) of the entire shrimp fleet. The remaining shrimpers are out of work.

Please Ponder a donation to the cause which helps the affected families. This is NOT going to go away any time soon.

Some of my portraits will be accompanying a Garnet Rogers song, which is being put together by VML marketing agency, in order to allow you a most facile methodology to donate.

I will post the link when it is available soon.

For more cool images, please check out my site here.

Good week!