Wonderful capture. I look forward to the next shot

Superb capture Bill. God Bless.

What a place! Little boys would love to have dangerous games there!

Imagine trying to remove this fortification and what the cost today would be!

Nice shot of this spooky old place Bill.

I would like a nosey in there :o)

Awesome rusty doors and stuff there. A really great shot.

great capture

EXCELLENT IMAGE

Excellent lighting and texture in this shot of the venerable old fortification, Bill, hardly fit for renovation.

Great shot Bill. I too love exploring old relics like this.

Aside from the damp, I'd love to live in a battery! LOL! Something to think about. Maybe the National Parks Service would consider selling one of these off. :P Of course one would need to go outside to move from room to room, but hey ... it could work! It fits our requirement for coastal living. :D

Great photo Bill. It looks like an old vault.

If you live in a battery won't you get charged :}..Sort of a mini urbex here bud, love the rusty textures, it just oozes age. I bet that place could tell a few bawdy stories eh?

nice play of light and shadow

A shame really Great capture

Nicely composed and the lighting is superb. :)

Great use of light and shade in this capture.

Great picture!!!

It was 'built for stout" as they used to say!

MY! What a shift - from quiet moss forest to coastal battery, but also silent. Too expensive to destroy/remove, we may need them in the near future. I've read Obama's been secretly giving away Alaskan islands to the Russians for "fishing" and bases. Reminds me of an old movie "The Russians Are Coming!". The light and shadow here are great. One can even see the floor, ceiling and wall inside, despite the bright light outside. That's a good job! Keep it up! :-)

Atmospheric, ghostly, crumbling, full of history.. And....almost certainly would be closed down by Health and Safety here! Great shot Bill.. Good post! More.. Will reply to you soon.. Rob

Excellent render Hugs Susan~

Amazing lines across the captivating textures, Bill; great POV and lighting!

As we usually say: 'Solid as a Rock', there is no doubt about it! and going by those historical dates, they don't build them like that anymore ... maybe a good thing? fascinating subject, Bill BB

Awesome shot, Bill! This is just fantastic - I can see where I'd fill up a few flash cards here, myself!

Nice work!

I'm only able to do 2 comments per gallery, right now, to allow my hand to ease back into typing. So I can only choose a couple of images at present. This one seemed a great contrast to the last one---your rain forest tapestry---because it's so bleak and sparse. Yet it has real richness all the same: Wonderful detail on the doors, wonderful rust & red colors and greens & yellows. Wonderful play of shadows criss crossing their way across the door & wall. And of the shadows inside the doorway against the light shining in. And you gave us the rotted stone atop the lintel (if that's what it's called). (For comic relief, we used to make jokes about "lintel soup". Not great jokes, ok, but jokes all the same...) A really fine capture of bleakness & decay, but also of how rich decay can be. And with a snippet of sky in the upper right corner, to redeem the bleakness of this once noble place. Beautiful, Bill, and I'm glad you'll be doing more. And thanks for your comments, and for the info about the troops stationed along Lake Michigan in WWII. I didn't know that. It gave a special meaning to my sunrise shot (which I posted only because I had no other sunrise shots to work with). (My uncle saw sunrises over land, as he was on the west coast of Italy, where the sun was rising in the east. Knowing that places like the naval bases here, and Ft. Sheridan, etc, saw those same sunrises makes what I see every morning all the more rich...)

Timeworn walls, rust & shadows - a fine & creative composition...

very interesting subject and superb shot