When you try to create an inline image only slide the next slide will fail to parse.
I'm running pandoc 1.15.0.6

Minimal working example:

# Test

## Image slide 1

![Placekitten](http://placekitten.com/200/300)\

## This will fail

## Image slide 2

![Placekitten](http://placekitten.com/200/300)\
However

## This will not

In case the description is not clear:

(What I really want to do is to have a named section with only image inside, no headers, but that's outside of scope of this bug)

Well, I just basically pasted what the documentation said, namely:

http://pandoc.org/README.html#images

I didn't realize that the next line wouldn't be recognized as a blank line – my bad then.

On a sidenote is it possible to somehow:
a) have some style apply only to the generated header (not the whole section),
b) don't generate headers automatically?

Currently I'm circumventing the issue by removing the headers by hand but that's cumbersome. The first approach would be nice but I have no idea about the complexity of such solution. Technically I could write my slides using HAML or Slim, since they give more control, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if possible.

@jgm Thanks!