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Bitter Lakes Suez Canal.
Another (extremely poor) image of the Suez Canal's Bitter Lakes captured in late 1963 from the Boat deck of Thos and Jno Brocklebank's cargo liner SS Mahseer. The image has been heavily processed in Adobe Lightroom to compensate for the lack of colour in the original Perutz 35 mm slide film and the damage to the film's emulsion caused by mould. I would imagine that ships transiting the canal still anchor in the Bitter Lakes today although their appearance will be completely different to those I saw in 1963. I only wish I had taken more care in setting up my manual Voigtlander camera and had used better quality slide film.
Author: John Leary
Photo size: 2.7 Mpixels (7.83 MB uncompressed) - 2000x1368 pixels (6.7x4.6 in / 16.9x11.6 cm at 300 ppi)