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In the late 1930s, with war already underway in Spain and China, global tensions were building steadily. In the United States, strategists called for a modernization of our long neglected coastal defenses and by 1937 projects of this sort were underway in several Bay Area locations.
The defense build up must have been a daunting challenge for planners. Aircraft had matured greatly in the preceding decade and coastal batteries could no longer hunker with impunity behind earthworks. They now needed protection from above in the form of reinforced concrete casemates, although some batteries would have to rely on the stealth afforded by less expensive camouflage netting. The coastal batteries of the time also had to confront the specter of battleships mounting sixteen-inch guns. This gave the opposition substantial firepower with a range of over 20 miles. The answer was to build new defensive batteries mounting the same sixteen-inch armament. San Francisco was home to what were essentially prototype batteries for these huge guns – Battery Davis at Fort Funston on the San Francisco coast and Battery Townsley on Tennessee Point at Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands.
Preliminary planning for Battery Townsley had spanned a decade. Once funds were approved in 1937, the battery’s two gun emplacements and supporting spaces for ammunition, targeting, and personnel were constructed quickly using a cut and fill technique. Battery Townsley fired the first 16” round from the US Pacific Coast on 1 July 1940. The battery was a major defense asset during WW II with a staff of 150 or so men. It remained on active status until 1948 when it was declared obsolete.
I visited Battery Townsley some 64 years later and it remains an impressive work. The guns are long gone – each gun’s 1,000,000 pounds of steel cut up for scrap in the 1940s – but the concrete casements are in good shape and the earth cover continues to conceal the largely inaccessible support spaces of the battery. I flew a Sutton 16 in a fairly stiff breeze and it lifted the camera cradle with ease during an altogether pleasant photo session.
I am taking these aerial photographs as a volunteer with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. For more information see kapcris.com/coastaldefenses/
EDMO heads for Wisdom Way after bringing in MOPO earlier that morning and servicing the power quickly at East Deerfield.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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From The Australian Women's Weekly 29 October 1958. If this had been added to the half pint bottles, I may have drunk my school milk. From my collection.
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A quick photoshop rendition done by me, of a portrait concept that I would like to pursue. A room full of hanging lightbulbs. Anyone know any?
This particular shot was taken by my brother's friend, whose name eludes me right now, at Jay Ismail's studio.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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I used one of the stamps in the Hero set National Parks Poetic Prints (LP445) to make this quick little card for a note. I was sending my Dad some photos and wanted to write a little note so I thought I would add a little fun to it.
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Wild Alaskan sockeye.
Corn from Yakima.
Fennel. Red onions. Potatoes left over from hash.
Danny whipped this up after we returned home, before Lu woke up from her nap.
I know that I'm spoiled.
Had to make a quick sketch to visualize the angles for some reason. The brain doesn't always fire on all cylinders on a Sunday afternoon...
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