News
& Projects
These stories will give you a better idea of what we do, our approach to a variety of challenges, and ways we might team with you on your next project.
Honk Falls, and a Free Rondout
We finish an 18-month project at Honk Lake, where the Honk Falls dam was lowered, removing the lake and restoring the free-running Rondout creek in the Catskills. A beautiful, cascading ravine catches the energetic falls.
Coire Glas: Pumped Hydro Storage in the Scottish Highlands
The Coire Glas (“little grey-green hollow”) project in the Scottish Highlands will pump water from Loch Lochy to the upper reservoir, storing energy and acting as a giant battery for homes across Great Britain.
Places We Go: The Champlain Hudson Power Express
Preconstruction work on the Champlain Hudson project is underway this month, just before black fly season in the Adirondacks. We’re working with Caldwell Marine International on this one.
Preconstruction: Verrazzano Narrows
We begin a new project, starting with preconstruction photography and videography along the shoreline under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn.
Setting the Floodgate, New York City
At 45 tons, the No. 18 Floodgate in Asser Levy Park is lowered into place. When flooding threatens lower Manhattan’s East Side, a series of gates will shut. This one will take a full five minutes.
Bureau of Land Management: Fire Preparedness Review
In May, as fire season gets underway, I joined the Bureau of Land Management’s Fire Preparedness Review team to photograph the landscape, wildland firefighters, remote fire stations and helitack crews in Arizona and Utah.
Bird Banding Public Session, Albany Pine Bush
In Albany’s pine barrens, ornithologists are letting young people experience the joys and challenges of bird banding.
Energy in Photography
Shifting from sports photography to environmental services photography often means you have to seek out the energy in your photographs.
Certified: Wildfire Behavior
To prepare for photo coverage of wildland fires in the western US, Allman Environmental Services Photography recently completed training and certification at the New York Wildfire & Incident Management Academy in Southampton, New York.
Foggy Morning, Mario M. Cuomo Bridge
Fog swallows the legs of the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, one of the largest infrastructure projects of this century.
Remote Area Medical Moves On
Like a MASH unit in the hills of Appalachia, the Remote Area Medical expedition to Wise, Viriginia brought free medical and dental services to the uninsured, deploying volunteer doctors and dentists to a county fairground.
The Unusable Picture
Not all pictures are usable. Some show violations of OSHA safety rules, and these pictures don’t make it to the final edit.
Setting the Gate: East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, New York City
Meanwhile, back at the East Side Coastal Resiliency project in Manhattan, the first of 18 massive steel gates was set this week. They’re designed to protect the residents of the Lower East Side from coastal flooding. And they’re heavy.
Digitizing William Henry Jackson’s Work for National Park Services
Digitizing the largest and most signifiant body of American landscape photographs sent down to us through history. I travel to western Nebraska to photograph the William Henry Jackson collection.
AESP is SBA-Certified
We’ll help you meet your diversity goals: Allman Environmental is a certified Small Business Administration Women-Owned Small Business, with other state and local set-asides.
Dam Rehabilitation, Catskills
Our latest documentation project: the partial removal of an old, high-hazard dam in the Catskills and stream restoration at Rondout Creek.