Coastal Artillery by bmac62

Photography • Military • posted on Feb 08, 2010

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Fort Casey, Whidbey Island, Washington. One ten inch gun of two remaining after the end of World War II. Fort Casey originally had 19 ten inch guns and 16 12 inch mortars to protect and defend the entrance to Puget Sound. Bill:) "A Siamese Cat..."

Comments (33)

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beachzz

1:53AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Great light, here, Bill. Really gives that gun some presence, but guess that's the idea!!

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bazza

1:57AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Nice capture very well done Bill, thats a big gun wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of its projectiles.. Super posting Mate..

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cfulton

2:00AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

I love the exposure on this, Bill! Stark with a glimmer of detail. Cheers, Clive

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helanker

2:36AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Beautiful silhoutte... almost :) I agree with Marilyn.

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durleybeachbum

3:53AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Quite scary..even after all these years.

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kenmo

5:17AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Now that's big gun....

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debbielove

7:49AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Now THAT is COOL! I love this... Really I do.. And a really good shot... Silhouettes and all.. Stunner here Bill... well done! Rob

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Rainastorm

8:16AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Toooo cool a post Bill, perfect silhouette of this big gun. Makes it look that much more mysterious!

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lyron

8:22AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Wonderful lighting. Great image!!!

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jendellas

9:04AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Awsome image. We still have some bunkers (or we did??) along the sea. We used to play in them as children, not really realising what they were!!!!!

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auntietk

9:25AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

This is wonderful! It's better than the real thing. Excellent photograph!

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elfin14doaks

9:40AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Great shot, I love how the sun is behind and silhouettes the gun.

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Osper

10:45AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Class shot!

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Meisiekind

11:45AM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Don't shoot - I'm on your side!!! grabbing my head and ducking Great image Bill!! :)

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flavia49

12:03PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

fantastic image!!

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kansas

12:41PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Super shot. Sure looks like you are having great fun and seeing lots of things out in WA.. I'm happy for you.

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drace68

1:22PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Whoo!

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MagikUnicorn

4:02PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Picture taken just before the Snowmageddon ? ;-) Gorgeous and powerful defense artillery ;-)

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sandra46

4:45PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

SUPERLATIVE CAPTURE!!!!!!!

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jocko500

4:51PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

that a big gun . wonderful pov

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danob

5:03PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Thought it may have been yoour new Zoom Bill ;-) Nice image and bit of history

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neiwil

5:33PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

I recognise this, a dissapearing carriage, counter balanced gun mount.Why do I know that ?....long story.Great capture Bill, so much detail even in silhouette.This is a keeper.

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RodS

6:36PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Nice shot, Bill! I like the way you've silhouetted that big piece. That would definitely tend to get one's attention downrange. I've got a shot - somewhere - of one of the three 'Atomic Annies' that is on display across the highway from Ft. Riley - but it's not as cool a shot as this one!

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Chipka

6:39PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

This is outstanding. I love the functional grace of heavy artillery and well, this has strangely "sexy" lines and curves to it. The light/dark contrast is perfectly balanced and the POV is stunning. You give a great sense of scale and place, despite the tight focus. That's quite a hard trick to pull off. At times when I look at stuff like this, I can see where George Lucas stole--um, I mean received inspiration from--80% of what pops up in the Star Wars universe. Naturally I'd glom onto that. This is fantastic work. Quite evocative.

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npauling

7:21PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

A very impressive capture.

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weesel

8:21PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

Disappearing coastal artillery. Didn't know any pieces were still left. Nice capture.

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Huolong

2:49PM | Tue, 09 February 2010

Coastal artillery would make some interesting 3D models for a number of applications. The gun here is one of the "diappearing" type. Once firedm, it would recoil to the rear and down so that it could be reloaded without the crew being in line of sight. Unfortunately, these guns were in line of sight of aircraft who either bombed them directly or adjusted the fire of guns and mortars with a higher angle of plunging fires. This type were on Corregidor and Japanese guns on the Bataan Peninsula had the US guns zeroed in. There was a very complex system of forts using this type of gun on Hawai'i in 1941, but the current runway for Honolulu airport runs right over some of the older positions.

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Buffalo1

1:03PM | Wed, 10 February 2010

A fine POV silhouette, Bill. I love disappearing coastal guns! If memory serves, the Fort Casey battery was ready to shoot at a Japanese sub sighted in 1942, but the command to "Open fire!" never came.

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goodoleboy

6:56PM | Wed, 10 February 2010

Excellent POV, clarity and backlighting to silhouette the big boomer, Bill. I presume, before the Battle of Midway, that they expected the entire Japanese fleet to come over the horizon.

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