Great shot, Mark. Good to hear the river is up and running. Paul On Jul 10, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Mark C wrote:
> A couple of years ago, at the same time as the Gulf Oil Spill, there was a > much smaller oil spill in Talmadge Creek in SW Michigan. Much smaller = > 800,000 to 1,000,000 gallons of oil. Talmadge Creek is much much smaller than > the Gulf of Mexico - you could practically spit across it, if you are a good > spitter. The oil flowed from the creek into the Kalamazoo River and befouled > a whole lot of it. > > The Kalamazoo River was finally reopened this summer. A commemorative poster > has been put together and is being sold as a fund raiser for the > not-for-profits involved in the oil cleanup. I donated use of one my photos > for the poster - the same one that runs across the top of my blog. Chuck > Lund, another local nature photographer (and acquaintance that I used to run > into at art fairs) took the smaller insert photos. You can see it here - > > http://www.truewindmedia.com/ > > And read about the disaster here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmadge_Creek > > - Mark > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
