LP and Urbex Pt 6 - Victorian Coastal Fortress

Hi Ho Hiveans,
Another week without any Light Painting at all. The short nights at this time of year will test any hardened nocturnal photographer and the patience required to wait to start until about 11pm is more than I have got! It's okay on nights where the next day isn't a work day and sometimes if I'm camping out near the location it can be an adventure to take shots until about 3.30am when it becomes too bright outside to get an exposure longer than 30 seconds, but this week was too busy to plan a late outing.
Mixed but warm weather last weekend was welcome after a mini heat wave in the week. My wife and I traveled to South Devon as we had been invited to a private showing of my Brother in-law's Contemporary Art installations at the Devon Sculpture Park at Mamhead. Divider 5.png

Shadows and Silhouettes
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January 2016

Posting an Explore from a very chilly January day/night in 2016. Matt and I traveled up to Portsmouth as had seen a recent explore on-line and had wanted to visit for a few months, the weather was dry and was the right time to visit. First impressions on arriving at the location were that it was a massive building and it looked impenetrable. Luckily we found a hole in the inadequate wire perimeter fence and easily climbed around to the top of the fort where we found a stone staircase that lead us down into the center Parade area of this semi-circular building.
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Gallery
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Fort Gilkicker's Beginnings - In the 1850's it was considered necessary to secure the western landward approaches to Portsmouth Harbour by building a line of fortifications. Between 1853 and 1862 new fortifications based on the latest continental form of 'Polygonal‘ fortification were constructed. These five forts became known as the Gosport Advanced Lines. In order to make a beach landing more hazardous Fort Monckton was strengthened by the addition of an 'Auxiliary Battery‘, the first fort on the site of the present Fort Gilkicker.
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The Walk
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We spent hours at this explore, totally undisturbed and found some interesting features such as the gun placements and a couple of different bomb lifts, one of which which had a totally intact rubber conveyor belt leading to the gun placement on the floor above which made a great subject for light painting.

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RGB Man - The Loader
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The vaulted ammunition magazines are immense which provides a large enough area to spin orbs and wave lights around in a haphazard way. I have re-visited this site a number of times and it never disappoints, even when the news states it's been bought by developers, it's always been delayed by building and planning restrictions on this Grade II Listed Building and we have always found a way in. 😉
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