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Granite Slabs. Yosemite National Park, California. September 12, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Filtered sunlight on granite slabs, Yosemite National Park
While many may associate waterfalls with Yosemite, especially if their experience is mainly with Yosemite Valley, it is simply granite that comes to mind first for me. Yes, there are beautiful forests, and many wonderful lake, and rivers, and wildlife, and more — but all of those play out against the backdrop of the ubiquitous Yosemite granite. It comes as cliffs, shattered rock on mountaintops, domes, and beautiful slabs.
I spent a week photographing around a backcountry lake in early September 2015, during the time of awful wildfires and a lot of smoke — in fact, that smoke was partially responsible for the filtered light on the day I made this photograph. Within a few minutes of our campsite, huge slabs of granite rose up from near the shore of the lake and climbed many hundreds of feet up toward sharp granite ridges high above. This section, glaciated in the past and then fractured by ice and water, was sculpted into beautiful shapes.
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Some recent heavy duty pruning at Vigo Bridge had opened up this area of the embankment to enable this early 2003 view of EWS 60083 'Mountsorrel' to be taken. It was heading for Llanwern with a consignment of steel slabs forming the 6V40 06:02 from Lackenby.
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With the sun still just above the horizon the sky started to take on an orange hue and the slab of rock I was positioned on was momentarily turned to gold.
K597 notches up past the Deshler cantilever with two SD40s, the leader an SD40-3 and the trailing unit an original -2.
Stumer’s Slab Hut 1879. This hut was built at Milford near Boonah by Carl and Marie Stumer (German settlers) in 1879. They had 7 children in this home.
This hut has been transported to Templin Historical Village
The soft glow of fusees signal that a slab train is ready to shove back after having been pulled from a nearby building. You have to love steel mills and their nearly 24/7/365 operation. I think I had 4 hours of sleep that night as I was mesmerized by all the action.
CSX Q509 makes its presence known in Lima as it enters the yard limits for a crew change. CSX 795 is a one unit wonder on this staple Toledo Sub train this afternoon with its telltale fresh steel slabs from the mills around River Rouge, Michigan up front.
Train: CSX Q509 with CSX 795 (ES44AC).
CSX Toledo Subdivision
Lima, Ohio
Having taken place on the 15th of July in the "Village square" the highlight of which was a show by the Street Orchestra of London seen under Pioneer House (City Architects/ British Lift Slab 1964)
I lay down to get this low angle shot only to attract more attention from photographers on one side and people enquiring to see if I had fainted on the other !