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Smile on Saturday: Many identical objects
I ended up with four possible SoS photos this week. This one has the most zing.
The abandoned Battery 236—built to protect the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel during World War II—at Fort Travis Seashore Park, Port Bolivar, Texas.
The Gun Saluting Battery in Valletta, Malta, is located one level below the Upper Barrakka Gardens. The Saluting Battery served both as a defensive and ceremonial platform from where dignitaries and visiting dignitaries to the island were greeted with gun fire. It also doubled as the official public time marker for the island with the firing of three cannon at sunrise, noon and sunset.
The Saluting Battery was started in 1566 as part of the main fortification belt around the city of Valletta. The Battery sits on a strategic point guarding the Grand Harbor of Malta. It is opposite of the Fort of Saint Angelo. Together, these two armed positions could close the harbor to any enemy navies. Besides a defensive role, the Saluting Battery also played an important ceremonial role. It fired gun salutes at national and religious holidays and festivals. The battery also fired salutes to honor visiting dignitaries to the island. Further, important news such as military victories would be announced with a gun salute. After 1814 when Malta was handed over to the British Empire, the Saluting Battery became the responsibility of the British Royal Navy. The battery would be fired to celebrate the Royal birthday and births of new members of the royal family. It was this function that gave the battery its name.
Another job of the battery was to mark the hour by firing at noon and sunset. It would also signal the opening and closing of the city gates. This function continued until the start of the 20th century with the battery firing at noon so the ships in the harbor could synchronize their ships’ clocks.
The guns have a calibre of 24-pounds (14cm), weigh a rough 2.6 tonnes and have a length of 2.91m. They carry the Royal cipher of King George III. When used in active service these guns could be fitted with fore and rear sights on their second reinforce and cascable respectively. All eight guns are original pieces made by Carron Iron Works of Falkirk in Scotland or Samuel Walker & Co., iron founders of Grenoside near Sheffield. They were made between 1790 and 1810.
MARIN HEADLANDS, CA -- Shot the Battery Alexander last weekend with takenpictures.
Six minute exposure. Lit with an LED flashlight and a warmup gel.
A Grimaldi Lines Car Carrier, "Grand Benelux" passes Battery Point Portishead.
In the background is South Wales
Have been sat on this for a while as I wasn't sure if it worked with the colour cast left by the 10 Stop ND filter.
Left as (As Shot) white balance, slight crop, small levels and curves adjustment.
Battery Creek Lock (operated 1851-1880), across the James River from the James River Visitor Center, Blue Ridge Parkway.
This Beaux Arts building, which houses the ferry slips for the Governor's Island ferry, was built in 1906 and was once called the Maritime Ferry Building, It is on the U.S. Register of Historic Places and the New York U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is #243 on the New York City Landmarks list. "Between 2001 and 2005, in a $36 million renovation, the exterior of the building and its deteriorating wooden piers were restored and its exterior repainted in its original multiple color scheme by Jan Hird Pokorny Architects." -- NYC 2008
This is the center of three batteries that comprise Fort Baldwin in Phippsburg, Maine. It was constructed on top of a hill that overlooks the mouth of the Kennebec River in the very early 1900s. This battery had one 6 inch disappearing gun that was mounted on top of this circular platform. It could be loaded while behind the fortifications and then raised above the fortification wall to be fired. This gun was at some point disassembled and sent to France near the end of WW I.
I believe this is a Cadillac, though I can't see clearly what model it is.
I should have checked out the information after having taken the photo, but it appears the entire trunk is made up of batteries that run the car, instead of an internal combustion engine.
I also didn't take the time to go to the front of the car to see what was under the hood. But it makes me wonder where one puts their groceries or luggage, if the trunk is now a power grid?
Once the lighthouse for Crescent City Harbor in northernmost California, Battery Point Lighthouse was automated in the 1960s and decommissioned in 1982. The light still functions, but for display rather than for navigation. The grounds are now a museum.
Volotariamente ho fotografato delle batterie scariche con segni di usura, dimostrano il loro utilizzo
Voluntarily I photographed dead batteries with signs of wear, demonstrating their use
Battery Creek Lock (operated 1851-1880), across the James River from the James River Visitor Center, Blue Ridge Parkway.
Peaks Island, Maine USA. Graffiti at Battery Steele (1942), an abandoned WWII defensive position, made from steel reinforced, poured concrete. It's now a part of the Peaks Island Land Preserve.
This is just one battery, and no photoshop, honest! I made a two-mirror "kaleidoscope" with two 3 cm x 13cm (approx.) strips of first-surface mirror placed in an adjustable cradle. With the angle between mirrors adjusted to 72 deg. to create a five-sector rosette, I placed an AAA battery between the mirrors to make this shot, using a tie-die bandana for the background. The top center battery is real, the other four are reflections. Since AAA battery is about 1 cm in diameter, the total image width is about 3cm x 3cm.