Creole Sky provides aerial documentation and progression photography for infrastructure, industrial, and civic projects across the New Orleans metro and Gulf Coast. Specializing in long-cycle project documentation, site monitoring, and storytelling for construction, coastal restoration, and industrial development - with deep local knowledge of the region’s parishes, waterways, and built environment.
Our Services
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Documentary storytelling from above. Reels, long-form, institutional.
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Progression photography. Before, during and after. Same position, over time.
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Facility openings, community events, public programs.
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High-resolution stills. Every shoot includes photo and video.
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Reels-ready short form content for local businesses and organizations.
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Roof, infrastructure and industrial aerial inspection.
INDUSTRIES
GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPAL
CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
REAL ESTATE
MEDIA AND EDITORIAL
NONPROFIT AND COMMUNITY
INSURANCE CLAIMS
Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA
The drainage work is part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA), Algiers Subbasin “SELA 72.2”, a federally funded project led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans.
Village De L’Est Splash Pad | New Orleans East, LA
New Orleans East is getting a brand new splash pad - vibrant, colorful, and built for the kids of Village De L’Est. The rubber surface is down, the water features are in, and final finishing is underway.
The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal
Locally known as the Industrial Canal, is one of New Orleans' most consequential waterways. Built in 1923, it carries commercial barge traffic through the heart of the city while serving as the geographic boundary between the Lower Ninth Ward and the Bywater. This aerial documents a barge in transit past the St. Claude Avenue Bridge lock structure, with the Florida Avenue Bridge visible in the distance and the neighborhood levee system framing both banks, the same levee system that failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Domino Sugar Refinery
American Sugar Refining broke ground on Phase 1 of a $785 million modernization of the Chalmette Refinery, the largest refinery in the Western Hemisphere and one of St. Bernard Parish’s top employers and taxpayers. The first phase alone represents a $200M+ investment to construct a brand-new state-of-the-art process building, modernizing refining capabilities, cutting energy and water consumption, and setting the facility up for future demand.
Residence Village
Xavier University Residence Village is a 225,900-square-foot, seven-story residential development going up at 4700 Dixon Street in New Orleans. From above, the steel frame and concrete form work tell the story of a campus in transformation , a tower crane presiding over what will become the largest student housing complex in the university’s history.
about the Founder
Creole Sky is the aerial work of Kim - a New Orleans journalist, disaster response professional, and FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot documenting the Gulf South from above.
Before she flew, Kim spent years on the ground. As a catastrophe specialist with Nationwide Insurance, she trained adjusters, documented damage, and understood firsthand how aerial evidence shapes outcomes for property owners and carriers alike. During the historic 2004 hurricane season, she ran a storm center in Port St. Lucie, Florida - coordinating response as a series of major hurricanes made landfall in rapid succession. In May 2011, when a devastating tornado tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, she led humanitarian efforts on the ground and coordinated Nationwide's catastrophe response rig to the site - working directly with The Weather Channel to deliver an on-site catastrophe update to the affected community.
A previously licensed Property & Casualty adjuster and currently Life licensed, Kim brings an insider understanding of how insurance documentation works - what carriers need, what adjusters look for, and how aerial evidence shapes outcomes for property owners and policyholders.
Before all of that, Kim spent two years as an air traffic controller for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the Northern Territory of Australia - one of the most demanding and remote aviation environments in the world. She doesn't just understand airspace from the pilot's perspective. She understands it from the control tower.
That experience informs everything Creole Sky produces. This isn't content for content's sake, it's documentation with purpose - infrastructure recorded before it changes, communities captured at turning points, stories told with the precision and accountability that journalism demands.
Based in New Orleans, Kim flies the city she covers. From the River District to the industrial corridor stretching down the Mississippi into St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes – Creole Sky is building an aerial record of this place, one flight at a time.