Fort Macon is a "Third System" coastal defense fort on North Carolina's
outer banks.
The "Third System" mostly was on the east coast, but there are two
"Third System" forts in California; Fort Point and Fort Alcatraz.
Fort Macon was used by the U.S. before the Civil War, and was seized by
the Confederacy on the same day Fort Sumter was fired on. The Union took
it back in 1862 after an 11 hour bombardment. The "Third System" forts
couldn't stand up to modern rifled artillery.
The fort was then used for the remainder of the war as a prison for
Union troops awaiting courts martial. After the war it was a federal
prison until 1877, because at that time North Carolina had no place to
house federal prisoners.
During the Spanish-American War, North Carolina was one of only three
states to raise an all black regiment of volunteers. The regiment was
commanded by African-American officers, and was stationed at Fort Macon.
After the Spanish-American war the Fort had only one soldier, a
caretaker until it was abandoned by the Federal Government.
In 1934, the Fort was sold to the state of North Carolina for $1.00 and
became the states second state park.
In 1942, the U.S. Army leased the fort back from the state, and it
became headquarters for a coast defense artillery unit. The actual gun
batteries were placed in sand-bagged revetments on the beach.
After the war, the fort was returned to the state and again became a
state park, as it remains today.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/4036619328/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/4036619474/in/photostream/
Taken with K10D, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 zoom, pop-up flash.
The reason these are up here is I finally figured out how to make the
fill flash work on the K10D. There's no lights in the casement except
what comes through the murder holes.
I put the flash on slow speed sync, flash -2 stops & exposure lock on
the sally port, then re-compose.
Post processing:
levels adjustment layer,
convert to SRGB profile,
change to 8 bit,
resample to 72 ppi and
save as jpeg.
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