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Maxwell Smart’s Entrance

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–– With all the doors open. One thing I really like about this is how incredibly long this hallway looks thanks to the fish. Another thing I was interested in while I was in this hall was the stalagmites forming on the floor. At first glance I didn’t recognize them for what they were – I noticed them on the …

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Upstairs Down

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Battery Russell at Fort Stevens is built with massive concrete walls and there are little niches everywhere. Wonder what they are for?

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Los Tres Amigos

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Also known as: KNK-CMT-ACH I have a few more images from Battery Russell at Fort Stevens left in my arsenal for posting the rest of this week. I found this interesting, so had to setup and shoot it. These three niches were in a wall next to a set of stairs leading down into the bowels of Battery Russell (the …

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The Fire Has Gone Out

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Discovered this in the back of the officer’s headquarters in Battery Russell at Fort Stevens. Winters are cold and wet here in the Pacific NW and looking at this makes me wonder about the soldiers who were posted here and how they kept themselves warm in the winter.  How many fires were built here over the years and did only …

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Casper, Is That You?

Casper, Is That You?

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Honestly, it was dark enough here that I thought the algae and slime was more black than green. It was light enough to see the way up the stairs, but dim enough that I never saw ‘Casper’ at all. I didn’t notice his ghostly form until after I was home and brought the exposures into Lightroom. It wasn’t until then …

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Long Hall - Crop

Long Hall

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I spent the weekend at the Oregon coast with family and on Saturday afternoon drove up to Fort Stevens in hopes of getting some good HDR shots. We stopped at Battery Russell and it was raining (as usual) and so we started with some of the interior and ammo storage rooms. It was very dim, wet and algae was growing …

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