Oil spill : Lake Michigan photos

"Crude  Awakening"

by Jane Fulton Alt

To have us figure out  the impact of the oil spill on Lake Michigan shores, Jane Fulton Alt coated friends and other volunteers with a non toxic oillike substance before taking pictures of them. She surely aims at showing no matter how far we live from Louisiana or the Gulf coasts... we are all concerned !

The photo showing  an empty lifeguard chair with the sign "No lifeguard on duty"(1) symbolises the dangers of deep-water drilling, she explains : "It means that no one is really guarding life, basically," she said. "We're involved in risky oil drilling practices that threaten everybody and everything that is living."

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"Crude awakening" is a play on words : "crude oil" or "crude" also means 'pétrole brut'

(1) = photo 10 on the slideshow

>>>  Jane Fulton Alt's website 

About her >>> a biography on WIKIpedia
 Articles  >>> The Chicago Tribune - News  (June 30, 2010)

                treehugger.com (July 11, 2010)