the pictures speak for themselves.
Sorry I have so few. The only open access photos are ones of "administration officials" hugging each other, or BP crew 'cleaning' birds and beaches. I did a search over the web and could only find these that were embeddable . No a single one of the tormented wildlife. Even Flickr has so little! Apparently only a few AP photographers have gotten through. So no open access in this day of millions of DIgital Photography enthusiasts. Positively creepy. like everything else these days.
Mr. Levin has been struggling — as every photojournalist has — with restricted access and sanitized scenes on the Gulf coast. Speaking of Mr. Riedel’s work, he said: "I would love to have taken it. I’m sad that it had to be taken. But I’m glad it got taken."
a link to some REAL PICS in the NY Times story
I guess Thad Allen at the behest of BP and I presume "the administration" has decided its best for us not to see these images, and so has restricted access to photographers to "feel good" images, like the last of the shrimp Gumbo being eating. And people hugging each other.
Apparently the only people who had access where those that went along with Bobby Jindal. How Tragic. WIth a democratically elected administartion, we have to depend on a republican hack to give us access to our own environment!
If you can find picture that actually tell the tale of this catastrophe instead of airbrushing it, please link to them in your comments
Kumbaya to you all. I mean it.
Thanks to a tip from a commenter, here are some more