Possibly one of the best places I have ever been to for Night Photography has to be Fort Southwick, and I hope that we can go back there. This site visit was kindly set up as a group visit for the Portsmouth At Night group by one of the members. We had the whole underground section to our selves and we were given hours to explore the place! Amazing.
What makes Fort Southwick such an amazing place for Night Photography (or any photography come to think of it) is everything in the underground tunnels has been left un-touched since the second world war, this allows for some nice retro style photos!
Despite my lack of colored gels that night I did manage to get some usable images.
These were found in the kitchen area.
Down one of the longest tunnels we found, the area behind where this one was taken was used as a film set. Some of the film set still remains, one of these being a mounting point for a noose.
The central stair well, the majority of the tunnels meet at this spiral stair case.
More Fort Southwick photos can be seen in the flickr set.
Sadly, planning permission has been granted to renovate parts of the fort into modern accommodation or office space, this could mean some of the original elements of the Fort could soon be destroyed. I am glad we got in there when we did, and hope to do so again before anything is done to the Fort.
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