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DANIEL BELTRA
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Beauty in the most tragic sense

Beltrá took thousands of pictures of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, many of them from aboard a small airplane. This image, taken in May, shows oil streaked across the water's surface in the area where the Deepwater Horizon wellhead sank, creating the worst spill in U.S. history.