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I think when we first see something like this, we naturally feel uncomfortable...... and that interests me.
I tried to glorify this piece of meat to make it look as attractive as possible, like the beautiful object that it is
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I have traveled, I am fairly well read, and I try to be always observant. But, when I read the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer and then the eventual wildly popular movie in 2007, there is chapter that describes the main character seeking and finding the community of Slab City. I HAD NEVER HEARD OF IT.
I have made three trips to Slab City - Once, I was tent camping nearby and was determined to find it at night in torrential rain. Did not happen. The second and third times were day trips from Yuma when I would be crossing the Mexican border for dental work.
I am done. The net result is more and more meth heads are migrating here and basically putting a huge burden on law enforcement, 1st responders and all with the arrogance of Amerikan entitlement.
Hit up YouTube with "Slab City" and you see what I mean....
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The builders were here this morning, working on my back patio ... but then the rain came and they went home.
Fingers crossed it is finished before the Summer, although I'm not saying which Summer :))
Trees, Granite Slabs. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A group of small trees find a marginal existence growing along a crack at the edge of an exfoliated slab of granite, Yosemite National Park
It took me three tries, on successive days, to finally get the photograph of this little bit of granite slab and trees that I was looking for. On evening of our first day camping in the vicinity we were under the thick smoke plume from the early September "Meadow" fire in Yosemite, which was burning some miles away in the Little Yosemite Valley area — but also sending dense smoke towards us and dropping ash from the sky. I did make a few photographs in this eerie light the first night, but it was a very tricky situation that did not work well for this subject. I went back on the second evening, when the smoke had diminished at our location to the point that it wasn't a major factor in "intimate landscape" photographs like this one. I went to the top of a large granite bowl before the light was good and scouted for likely photographs to make as the evening light improved. I spotted this lengthy crack at the edge of an exfoliated granite slab, in which a number of small trees had taken tenuous root and decided that it could be an interesting subject with evening sidelight. I wasn't the only one, however, and three members of our party had the same idea! We are a cooperative bunch, so I photographed some other things while my partners worked this spot, and then returned to set up a shot that looked more directly up the length of the crack that curves through the composition in this version. Later that evening I was quickly reviewing my shots from the day, and I realized that one of my buddies had cast a long shadow into part of the frame! Ah, well, such things happen.
So I made plans to go back yet again on our final evening in the area and try once more. In the end, I'm glad that I did. I'm now convinced that by going back I found a more interesting composition that accomplished several things. First, no one's shadow is in the image! Second, I think that positioning the large crack so that it curves more diagonally through the frame works better than my original composition. Third, due to this different camera position and somewhat different light, I was able to let the shadow of the tree create a sort of mirror image of its form, resulting in a relationship between the tree and the shadow that I like. There are spots much like this one all over the place in Yosemite — smooth slabs of granite on which tiny but often mature trees manage to find just enough sustenance. In this little spot, a somewhat unusual number of these trees seem to have made a success of it.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Platz der Republik - Berlin
Marzo 2009
Memorial to Murdered Parliament Members 1933-1945 (Appelt, Eisenlohr, Müller, Zwirner 1992)
EWS 60010 passes Elford with a load 23 freight carrying a consignment of steel slab forming the 6V36 (Q) 08:17 Lackenby to Llanwern.
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Taken at Pearl Shoals Waterfall, Jiuzhaigou.
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St John's church is red sandstone, and so are the many gravestones - some of them great big slabs which must weigh several hundredweight.
Personally, I would have named it Slab Creek. I mean, Rock Creek is (perhaps) too obvious. But I always think of Fagan Creek as a creek on a slab of rock. There are bits and pieces of it where it looks like water flowing over a giant pool table. A hundred feet or more of just a flat, slab of rock. But I’m guessing a guy named Fagan owned it. Or laid claim to it anyway.
Oh well, the Wildflower Trail along Fagan Creek is a favorite piece of the Land Trust of Northern Alabama, in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California. It took its name from concrete slabs that remained after the World War II Marine Corps Camp Dunlap training camp was torn down. Slab City is known for attracting people who want to live outside mainstream society.
There's no shade out in front of our house, so I asked Sarah to hold a black board up. It's a sun trap in front of our front door. The sun was lighting up the slabs and the brickwork.
The straight lines from the slabs really help you to see the ways in which the bubble twists and turns the reflections. I'd love to take a bubble photo over a bright tiled floor. That would really create a strong twisty turny effect.
It seems strange that the brightness of the slabs overlays them over the sky reflections. So, I want a bright white marble floor, with a dark blue sky above. Any ideas where I can find a landscape like that?
Top: shown dry
Bottom: shown wet
Set 1: Area54ite, Red tiger's eye, Morgan Hill brecciated jasper, Morgan Hill whale bone, rainbow "onyx" and mookaite
Set 2: Stone Canyon jasper, crazy lace agate (dogtooth variety), golden picture jasper, Owyhee (Wildhorse) jasper, bloodstone and petrified wood
Seen in Wy Hit Tuk Park, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
www.northamptoncounty.org/PUBWRKS/PARKREC/Pages/default.aspx
The slab was found in the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos, Athens. The monument, from which the slab comes, will have had the form of a naiskos, with pilasters and a pediment made of separate pieces of marble. This was the right slab of the three forming the monument. It depicts a woman wearing a chiton and a himation, which she draws up with her right hand.
Source: Museum notice
Pentelic marble.
Height: 207 cm; width: 68 cm
350-325 BC.
From Kerameikos, Athens
Athens, National Museum Inv. No. 966
“A century ago, Salt Lake City was a model for transit. … After it became one of the first five American cities to generate electric power in 1881, electricity replaced horsepower to drive the trolleys.” Will Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, Dec 9, 2001
EWS 60001 'The Railway Observer' passes Defford with 18 BBAs loaded with steel slabs forming the 6V40 Lackenby to Llanwern.
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