September 1992 - Mk IV 6-inch BL (rifled breech loading) coastal defence gun display at Princess Royal Fortress, Mt Adelaide, Albany, Western Australia, Australia

IMAGE INFO

- Viewpoint is looking due north towards the Porongorup Range.

- Latest Google Maps image (2022) shows the gun is actually no longer positioned there. Whereabouts unknown.. :o(.

www.google.com.au/maps/@-35.0305815,117.912834,158m/data=...

- Gun type is an 1893, Mk IV 6-inch BL, with garrison carriages and sliding platform recoil on a revolving ring. www.ozatwar.com/bunkers/princessroyalfortress.htm

- Princess Royal Fortress is located on Mt Adelaide & overlooks King George Sound in Albany. The fortress was established in 1893 to protect Albany & its harbour from the threat of invasion. The Fortress acted as a deterrent until it was decommissioned (1956).

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SOURCE INFO

- Original image was captured using a SEAGULL DF-300 SLR camera (an authorized Chinese clone of the Minolta X-300 / X-370), with KODACOLOR GOLD 100 color film & a SIGMA 28-200mm f3.5-5.6 Compact SLR Aspherical Hyperzoom Macro lens.

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PROCESS INFO

- Original colour negative digitized using a CANON Canoscan 8800F scanner @ 3200 dpi & 48 bit color.

- Reduced film grain & improved sharpness with Topaz Gigapixel AI software.

- Improved image accent, lighting, colour density & contrast with Luminar Neo AI.

- Final fine adjustments with Adobe Photoshop CS (Windows).

- Image size = 6000x3963px [23.8MP].

- Best viewed LARGE!

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