I don't know how many of you have seen this photo. It has been
circulating via email this past week. I don't have any
information as to who took it, but the email that I received was
titled "A few days ago at Gatún". This is one
impressive yet very disturbing aerial photo taken with what appears to
be a fish eye camera lens. Those of you that once lived in Gatun
will be disturbed once you fathom what has happened to New Town.
You may remember all the photos circulating on the Internet of part of
Gatun's housing getting dismantled, well this is why. The
excavation goes all the way up to the edge of the road across from the
Gatun Swimming Pool. Gatun will surely be an island when all
this is done. Although the fish eye lens makes the old locks
appear much smaller, when this project is all over, the old locks will
be dwarfed by this new Post Panamax locks. The red clay
makes the earth appear as it is bleeding, but it is just the color
balance in the original photo. I tried to tone it down, but
couldn't.
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