Strategic Stability - a photo on Flickriver

            Fort Jefferson, built on Garden Key of the Dry Tortugas, was constructed in the mid-19th century to protect the shipping lanes accessing the Gulf Coast of the United States.  The deep-water anchorage nearby was critical for resupply and refit of vessels and shelter from seasonal Caribbean storms.

Although never actually completed, Fort Jefferson was the largest and most sophisticated in a chain of coastal forts situated along the U.S. coast from Maine to California, becoming a critical enabler to the Union Navy successfully blockading Confederate shipping during the Civil War.  In addition to protecting the harbor, it became a prison for Union Army deserters and, for a time, Dr. Samuel Mudd - the physician who was convicted of aiding and abetting John Wilkes Booth.

A remote location, even today, it's hard to fathom the amount of labor and logistics involved in building and provisioning such a formidable structure with the level of precision and durability that allow us to continue to visit it in exceptional condition 175 years after the first bricks were emplaced.

Recognition:
Accepted for Display - MAR 2021 Darkroomers Photographic Club (Affiliate of Southern California Association of Camera Clubs {SCACC} and Photographic Society of America {PSA}).

Taken in: United States / Florida / Fort Jefferson (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 2016

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/8.0, 1/200 sec, 47mm, ISO 12800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:	EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture:	f/8.0
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Focal Length:	47mm
ISO:	12800
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1.1 (Windows)
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