1st Light Horse Brigade camp at Esdud. Torrential rain in Palestine in December 1917 made ...

1st Light Horse Brigade camp at Esdud. Torrential rain in Palestine in December 1917 made mounted operations impossible. The 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades moved to Esdud where they could camp on the sand hills above the soaked dark soil of the plains and take their supplies from the nearby railhead. When taking this panorama Captain Frank Hurley has not allowed sufficient overlap to join the separate images together. The panorama has been constructed by placing each image in the order Hurley intended but no attempt has been made to join the edges together. Hurley had little chance of holding the horses and men still as he changed the negatives in his camera and moved the camera to the next position. The panorama also covers a large arc, probably more than 180 degrees, if you look at the tents on both ends you will see the shadows are falling in opposite directions towards the centre of the panorama. This is a composite panorama made up of five separate colour Paget Plates. It is a digitally combined image and is only available as a digital print. The five images are also available separately at P03631.078, P03631.079, P03631.080, P03631.081 and P03631.082. The same composite panorama is available in black and white and is held at B01694P.
Right to left: .078, .079, .080, .081, .082