Sound Mirrors

I've just updated the Dungeness gallery on my site - the project is proceeding quite well, but since the idea was to document "the people and landscape" of Dungeness and it's still almost human-free there's obviously work left to be done. Contacting people you've never met to say "would you mind if I came and photographed you?" is a strange business, and so far I've had two outright refusals and one chap who would have been perfect for the project completely failing to reply to my requests... Still got a few avenues to pursue for my next visit though.

The picture above is part of the project that I did finally manage to (at least partially) achieve though - the sound mirrors were built at Dungeness in the inter-war years as a means of detecting the sounds of approaching aircraft - they were never that successful, and radar came along soon after, so they've been sitting there blankly scanning the Kent skies for seventy odd years. They're not that easy to find on their island in a disused quarry, and due to vandalism access is only now possible via a locked swing bridge, and only with the permission (which seems impossible to obtain) of the quarry owners. So, the photos I took were from the closest point you can get to them on public land - I'd have loved to be able to get closer, but this is the best I can do for now.