New Orleans Photographer

What on our earth does mankind do ? Is mankind just like icky goo?
Human surely need guidance don't they? New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran isn?t the only person who thinks chemical dispersants are still being sprayed in the Gulf of Mexico. ?When the tide is coming in, this stuff starts washing up,? said Tillman. ?It?s white fluffy, foamy stuff ?kind of like a meringue. This stuff clings together ? like snot.? The photographs below, http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/03/5759270-gulf-residents-track-washed-up-gunk which she says were taken on the beach at Gulfport on Dec. 29, show what she is talking about. Foam on a beach near Pass Christian, Miss. on Dec. 29. Photographer and local resident Shirley Tillman believes it is oil and dispersant. According to the official account of the oil spill response, about 1.8 million gallons of the dispersant were applied to break up the oil slick -- about two-thirds sprayed on the surface by boats and planes and the rest injected near the broken wellhead about a mile beneath the surface. Shirley Tillman Sand on a beach in Pass Christian, Miss. The red gunk resembles dispersed oil, according to photographer and local resident Shirley Tillman. Tillman doesn?t buy the Joint Command?s insistence that the use of dispersants has been halted, and she is not alone in her belief that nighttime air traffic over the gulf is due to dispersant spraying by C-130 aircraft, which also were used during the initial response. ?The air traffic is constant,? she said. Her theory: ?Spotter planes go out during the day, write down the problem spots are. ? Then you can sit on the beach at night and watch (C-130s) going back and forth.? Unlike Moran?s goo, the gunk sighted by Tillman has not been laboratory tested to verify her suspicions that it is oil mixed with dispersant. Tillman said she is trying to get chemical testing for the samples she has retrieved from her beach.

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