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Slate Heap

Yet more piles of slate on the slate island of Easdale :)

One of the most interesting places I’ve ever been to - Easdale, one of the Slate Islands off the west coast of Scotland, near Oban. Easdale was the centre of a huge slate-making industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century - there are Easdale slates on roofs as far away as Nova Scotia and New Zealand. Then in 1881 disaster struck - a huge storm and subsequent massive sea swamped all the quarries on the island. All the machinery was lost and mining had to end.

The quarries are still filled with water today - the mining machinery is still at the bottom of some of them, so they’re quite eerie and a wee bit sinister. And the island is covered with bits of slate, millions of pieces of it. It’s very other-worldly.

For more about the Slate Islands and the rest of my trip:

Oban, Mull, Iona and the Slate Islands

Taken on: April 21, 2022

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Camera: Olympus E-M1, f/4.0, 1/800 sec, 17mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1
Lens:	Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm F2.8 Pro
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Snapseed 2.22.412829873
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