Just now, after a decade of looking at, and reflecting over, quarry photo after quarry photo, I have stumbled across a 13 image sequence which stand as a unique view of life in a Cape Ann Quarry, circa 1870s. These 13 photos are among the greatest photos of Cape Ann Quarries I have ever witnessed.
There is a noisy excitement in viewing old images, an easy nostalgia with which we think to connect. I believe there is a challenge to immediacy, of involving all our senses, which might, with diligence permit us to stand as in the moment of when a photographer stood amidst the quarry workers and their rock.
Here is something seemingly simple:
What is unusual about this image?
Break: Stone Water Heart 
13? I only see one?!?
The full 13 images are being integrated into my book, they are central and will not be posted in full. This is a detail from one of them. Sorry if it seemed as if I’d be making all public.
Thanks for your question; now what is unusual in the detail image?
Les