Astonishing AP photo of oil heading into Orange Beach, AL (dialup warning)

[Ruby the Liberal]

Caption reads: Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore

Photographer: Dave Martin/AP



Posted with others at The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2010/jun/14/bp-oil-spill-oil-spills#zoomed-picture

[Poll_Blind]

1. That's beautiful...in the same way a mushroom cloud might be.

The colors, the splotches wrapped onto the rolling surface of the wave. What an image.

PB

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Its like Cognitive Dissonance, isn't it?

So beautiful yet so toxic and deadly at the same time.

[Fleshdancer]

24. it reminds me of Murano glass as its being blown into a vase

The colors are beautiful for a picture so tragic.

[Robb]

31. That was my thought, too

Like a Chihuly work. :(

[Liberal_in_LA]

40. me too!

[WillyT]

35. I Felt The Urge To Put On My Iron Butterfly Albmn...

:wow:

[malaise]

2. Stunning

and frightening

[GodlessBiker]

3. Mesmerizing and horrifying.

[City Lights]

4. Heartbreaking.

:cry:

[soleft]

5. Dinosaurs get their revenge on the planet via man

[uponit7771]

7. ...and we've found the oil spill pic of the month no? This is disgusting....

[depakid]

8. That is just other wordly

:-(

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. clip and save, guys. BP is erasing photos from servers, it is reported.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. good idea. thanks for the head's up

[WinkyDink]

14. How would BP have this authority and/or wherewithal?

[snooper2]

18. So BP controls the Intertubes now

:eyes:

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Several reports on DU about the pics disappearing.

[Brickbat]

10. That's a fantastic photo.

Woulda liked something that showed scale better, but still fantastic.

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Check the link - there may be another shot of this that isn't a tight zoom.

[stuntcat]

12. wow

k, b

:cry:

[rocktivity]

15. It's...downright...lovely...

like blown glass...

:scared:
rocktivity

[AnArmyVeteran]

16. A Conservative Wet Dream

[AnArmyVeteran]

17. Why are the Guardian and BBC better than ALL US media?????

[truebrit71]

19. Because they aren't owned by corporations...

..

[Ruby the Liberal]

41. Who are they owned by - private?

[truebrit71]

45. Guardian is private, BBC is funded by tv licenses

..

[Ruby the Liberal]

47. Ah - thanks!

[lunatica]

20. It looks like an ocean on another planet

Death lapping on our shores.

[Ruby the Liberal]

42. Like an ocean on Saturn or something, no? I see beauty and death and feel overall sadness

It is rather overwhelming.

[Evasporque]

21. BP Makes World's Largest LavaLamp...nt

[annabanana]

30. +1. .(good observation). . .n/t

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

22. Last one in is a grease monkey's uncle!

[cwydro]

23. You can see the dispersants at work there...

that is a poison wave.

And I have friends telling me I am "too upset" about this.

Christ.

[HillbillyBob]

26. Deadly waves of poisons should not exist on this world.

cwydro,
I don't think there is such a thing as too upset over this.
I lived in FtL and Miami for almost 20 yrs, had to move after H Andrew, the house was not directly hit, but the 40yr old roof leaked like a sieve after. I saw a lot of enviro destruction while I lived in So Fla too, and the changes to the Everglades from draining them the droughts and break of the rain cycles, fires.

I grew up in WV where there is strip mining and clear cutting.
We are destroying our planets 'infrastructure' faster than it can be replaced and grow back. Strip mines disturbed me greatly from the first time I saw one at about age 5.

We now live in N Central NC in rural wooded area, I keep seeing clear cuts off of land around here, mostly it is older folks who have lost their incomes when the textile, furniture, tobacco factories moved out of the area so it is being done out of financial necessity.

I remember the Potomac river being so polluted when I was a kid and the change after the factories and mines were stopped from dumping into it..to this day I wonder what effects there might be on the denizens of WDC since things like plastic and dioxins can bleed out of the old landfills because a lot of waste went into one that I know of that is right next to the river and a chemical factory, rubber tire plant, paper mill and some coal processing went on in that area when I was a kid in the 60s.

[stuntcat]

38. "Deadly waves of poisons should not exist on this world." x2

You are exactly right, there is no such thing as too upset over this.

I've been trying since the very first day of it to be strong :cry:

[Laelth]

46. I agree. It is not possible to be "too upset" about this. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[The Midway Rebel]

27. Everybody's Gone Surfin'... USA!

Sorry, trying to make myself feel better. This is making me sick in many ways.

k&R anyways.

[thereismore]

28. I've seen this pic here on DU before. nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

34. Sorry for the repost - I missed it the first time

[flyarm]

29. Breaking news 35,00-60,000 barrels a day of oil continuing to flow into the Gulf Of Mexico

according to Government study estimates.

[Ruby the Liberal]

32. I just saw that on MSNBC's feed

I want independent scientists down there YESTERDAY to tell us what is really going on.

[Soylent Brice]

33. how sad is that.

just wow.

[Catherina]

36. Beautiful in horror n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

37. It's alive!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. amazing photo

[live love laugh]

43. The "Thing" will consume the entire East Coast and maybe the Atlantic. Maybe there'll be

more concern when it nears DC.

[SeattleGirl]

44. Stunningly beautiful photo of a real-life nightmare. n/t