Taken on a cold and blustery evening where the fog left a gap that let a sliver of the setting sun through that hit the bridge with a spot of light.

Color Infrared shot taken near the Point Bonito Lighthouse

A 30 second exposure; I like the way it blurred the waves and clouds

A lonely sentry post on the windswept ridge

A 4 second exposure was enough to make the traffic disappear.

I took this when the sun came out again.

A tunnel which is part of "Construction #129" The trees grew from seeds carried in the truck tire treads from the Monterey area.

This installation was planned to have a 16" gun that could shoot a 2,200 pound shell 27 miles. The gun weighed 1,000,000 pounds. The site was rendered obsolete as it was reconsidered to be vulnerable to aircraft attack, so it was never installed.

Taken at Construction #129 in a strong breeze.

Taken well after sunset with the fog horns booming rhythmically into the night…

Located at the bottom of a cliff, so why was this here?

Near Point Bonito Lighthouse

The fog was dripping off the trees like rain in the strong wind

The flooded floor created an interesting reflection in this moody and forlorn place.

Abandoned and decaying on the ridge facing the vast Pacific

Battery Mendell

This is an Infrared filtered shot that allowed higher contrast and a longer exposure

Visibility was maybe 30 feet with a strong wind.
Infrared image

A glimpse of the past which is inherently intangible
(Thanks Della)

Standing above these buildings on the side of the road,
an unseen melancholy clarinet wafted in and out of the blustery breeze.
Deserted except for the occasional car zooming by to other more important destinations
I realized that I was standing in some very short poison oak where the roadside had been mowed....
The breeze carried a musty smell unique to old decaying buildings and
odd rusty hardware protruded whose functions are now a mystery.
The clean lines and simple forms still speak a clear language of Military efficiency
in spite of the changes in use or utter abandonment.
Chaos reigns in the accumulated debris and decades of decay from benign neglect.

Bunker Mendell

There is a sense of terrible purpose here but also a mystery as to the functions of the details

Empty and mysterious

Battery Spenser near the Golden Gate Bridge

Battery Mendell

The sliver moon was too tempting to pass up, like something from a fairy tale illustration

Battery Mendell

Battery Mendell

A detail of one of the bunkers

A wall detail

Battery Mendell

Late afternoon beneath a Monterey Cypress

Battery Mendell

On a stormy day in May

I tried a different view of the City and the bridge with this one

Taken just after sundown and the full moon was quite compelling.

This is a two horizontal panorama stitched together vertically (stacked) to capture the higher view.

Inconguity: Nature overtaking an old military installation. Forests usually don't have huge gun emplacements.

Inconguity: A military installation with a view of nature

Taken just as the sun was disappearing into the fog bank far below

An abstract; I was intrigued by the color variations of the remnant green paint, the found patterns and porportions that were surely originally intended to be militarily spartan and functional.

I love the mere shadow of the missing stairs. The forlorn quality played well against the nearly fill moon

A simple abstraction of the stairs to a gun turret

I won't usually indulge in symetrical compositions due to high risk of creating a visual dichotomy, but the color play appealed to me here.