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Photo was taken in the Pool of Arches from a boat, with flash and slave flash.
I used a color correction with iCorrect EditLab Pro and reduce noise from CS2.

Ramle was established in the year 717 AD by Moslems and soon became a major Moslem cultural center. In the year 789 AD they built the city's water system including underground reservoirs and aqueducts. The Pool of Arches is such a reservoir. The pool was called St. Helena by the Christians, named after the mother of the first Christian Emperor Constantine. The Arabs called the pool Birket El-Anzia, The Goat Pool, which probably signifies the fact that they brought their herds of goats for drinking water. The pool ceiling is constructed of multiple arches with openings that served for pulling up the water in buckets. Today Ramle is a mixed Jewish-Arab city about 20Km South of Tel-Aviv.