Posted 14 October 2012 - 06:09 PM
thewonderman, on 14 October 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:
Here is a picture from a fisherman back in the 1970s it seems REALLY familar to the object in the OPs photo and it is above the water in both of these photos.

Unfortunately, that picture is about as bad as a picture gets. Either the lens was filthy or the film/print processing went seriously wrong, or a combination of both.
I don't think even a detailed analysis could be done without the original negative.
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