Strait of Belle Isle

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The St. Lawrence River at the Atlantic Ocean

12 MP (4256×2832) Digital

This is one end of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The other end is 2,300 miles away, by water: Duluth, Wisconsin, at the western end of Lake Superior.  The entire Seaway has been navigable by ocean-going freighters since 1959.

This photo required a lot of restoration work.  The sun is just barely above the top of the frame; the shallow angle caused two small, internal lens reflections, which have been masked.  There were also a few sensor burns, which are caused when a digital camera is pointed at a very bright light for too long.  Finally, while all photographers know how to clean a camera lens, not all astronauts know how to clean a window, so I masked some serious unpleasantness along the horizon.

I’m confident that when the astronaut beheld the view with their eyes, those imperfections went unnoticed.

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