Never Left the Quarry

There is a vein of pink granite nearby that runs SSW to NNE.  This vein has long been quarried for architectural and structural stone.  Two ponds are named Big Brooklyn and Little Brooklyn because they were created when the stone was quarried for the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.

I am told (but have not verified) that the base of the Statue of Liberty was also quarried here.  Photos of the Statue show the correct color stone at the base for it to have been sourced from this quarry.  Certainly the stone for many buildings in and around New York City originated in this quarry.

Here are two architectural elements that apparently never made it out of the quarry.  I have long been fascinated by this area, which includes a pit where apparently the stone was cut.

This is the saw pit:

The photos of the elements are 3-frame HDR photos with exposure bias of -2, 0 and +2, processed in Photoshop with Nik Software's Efex HDR Pro 2 and Sharpener Pro 3.  The pit photo was mildly saturated with Photoshop.

All three photos taken with a Nikon D300s and Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 on a Gitzo CF tripod and Really Right Stuff ball head.