Auditorium Square Park. July, 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click image to enlarge.
NORAH JONES “Carnival Town” From her album Feels Like Home.
Archive for the ‘Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove’ Category
Modern OG history—-2016. Let there be light. Illumination Night in Ocean Grove.
Posted in Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Activity, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography Nights in Ocean Grove, tagged Illumination Night 2016 OceanGrove on January 7, 2026|
This butt’s for you…
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Caption contest. Participate, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Surfing Medicine by the Soul Vendors on December 22, 2025| 8 Comments »
Paul Goldfinger photograph in Ocean Grove. Click to make it bigger.
THE SOUL VENDORS from the album “Surfing Medicine Vol.1” The song is “Surfing Medicine.”
Winter Moon
Posted in Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography by Bob Bowne, tagged Winter Moon in Ocean Grove on December 19, 2025| 4 Comments »
Chain reaction…..but no stopping or standing.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography Nights in Ocean Grove, tagged Auditorium Square Park, You make me feel so young on December 19, 2025|
Auditorium Square Park. Ocean Grove, NJ. October, 2018. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Click once to enlarge.
FRANK SINATRA (First heard in the 1946 film “Three Little Girls in Blue.”)
What snow emergency? It’s oh what a beautiful morning.
Posted in Ocean Grove Gallery, Ocean Grove weather, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Snowy morning in Ocean Grove on December 14, 2025| 2 Comments »
4th Avenue. Asbury Park. Friday morning, Feb 5, for all these photos. Click to enlarge. © Paul Goldfinger Blogfinger.net
How sweet it is. Wesley Lake, Ocean Grove side. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©
Single family homes OG. No condos to spoil the beauty of Lake Avenue. (a walkway, not a street.) Paul Goldfinger ©
An Asbury Park landmark by the ocean. © No plows needed. Paul Goldfinger photo.
PEGGY LEE
Mendelssohn in the Great Auditorium: Celebrating the amazing music that occurs in Ocean Grove every season.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove Musical Event, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photos from the Great Auditorium, tagged Elijah in Ocean Grove, Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove New Jersey on October 27, 2025|
The Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove. Getting ready to perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” conducted by Jason Tramm. August 28, 2016. The musicians are from the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click to enlarge.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net. 2016 post.
Kudos to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for making such remarkable events possible in our town.
STEPHEN DOUGHTY Elijah Part 2. “He, watching over Israel, slumbers not.”
Remember our parade… Ocean Grove
Posted in Ocean Grove events, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Ocean Grove July parade 2012 on October 16, 2025|
No ugly ducklings here. Paul Goldfinger photo ©. July 4, 2012
BAND OF HM ROYAL MARINES: “Colonel Bogey” Bridge Over the River Kwai
“Dawn” A poem by Charles Pierre
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Bob Bowné, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photographs presented on Blogfinger, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography by Bob Bowne, Poems by Charles Pierre, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged A poem by Charles Pierre on Blogfinger, Dawn by Charles Pierre on October 9, 2025|
Beachfront Sunrise. By Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove. Blogfinger.net ©
Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan. I was struck by your quietly beautiful photo, “Beachfront Sunrise,” (posted recently on Blogfinger), and your statement that you preferred sunrises to sunsets because “beginnings are happier than endings.”
Here is the poem, “Dawn,” from my 2008 collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre
Dawn
By Charles Pierre
The first hint of morning on the ocean
is a trembling of shadows,
a dark hovering of muted tones
that moves with imperceptible pace,
a vanishing medium through which
the day brightens and widens,
the new light going on for miles and miles
in the shine of emerging surf.
BILL FRISELL. “Across the Universe.”
Portrait of Eileen
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Portrait of Eileen, tagged A portrait of Eileen on September 27, 2025|
Asbury Avenue, Ocean Grove
Posted in Music from the movies, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Asbury Avenue, Ocean Grove on September 24, 2025| 1 Comment »
…”a hand to hold when leaves begin to fall….”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Autumn festival in Ocean Grove on September 17, 2025| 1 Comment »
Main Avenue, Ocean Grove. British Car Show. Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge
BEVERLY KENNEY
The gentle end of summer…. Tent Village, 2017.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove feature article, Ocean Grove tent village, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography: Faces at the Shore, tagged Ocean Grove tent village on September 14, 2025| 2 Comments »
Friends let friends enjoy the Grove when they’re away. August 28, 2017. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor. Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, N.J. USA.
As I passed this young woman, she was watering the flowers along the edge of Tent Village in Ocean Grove, NJ, taking her time while her two small children played nearby. She and her family are here, occupying her best friend’s tent, during one of the loveliest times in the Grove—the end of August. They are from Pennsylvania, and they seemed so happy to be here.
Sometimes we have to look around through the eyes of visitors, especially those who get to stay here for awhile.
The temperate weather now is so pleasant: the light is soft, the breezes gentle, and there is no humidity. As we have pointed out, there is something ethereal about the Tent Village when it is occupied by soft spoken people, children, flowers, and, oftentimes, by the sweet sounds of the Hope-Jones organ or the voices lifted high coming from inside the Great Auditorium with glorious choral harmonies sometimes accompanied by symphonic ensembles.
But the effect is sustained mostly by the voices of those who are chatting on porches, kids on skateboards, or parents relaxing within the protective safe-zone of the Village.
Abraham visits our backyard pond. He loves to see the fish. Paul Goldfinger portrait. 8/30/17. ©
When I went home and stood in my own garden near Heroes Park, a tiny boy, 3 years old, approached me and said hello. His name was Abraham, and as he stood there with me, his mom caught up. I invited them in to see our pond fish.
Abraham and his family are from Yonkers, NY, and he has been visiting the Grove for the last 3 years, while his parents have been coming for the last 7. His Mom is originally from Sweden, and aside from Abraham’s enthusiasm and a three year old’s natural cuteness, he is bilingual. He pointed to a flying insect and said, “Dragonfly.” He was correct, and his mom took it all in stride. Abraham and I conversed in Swedish/English for awhile , and then he went home to sleep.
So, a couple more visitors caught up in OG’s gentle end of summer.
THE BAND PERRY: “Gentle on My Mind” this version won a 2015 Grammy nomination. It also won Grammies in 1968 for the composer and for Glen Campbell.
“Ever smilin’ ever gentle on my mind
Gentle on my mind
You’re gentle on my mind.”
September in the rain…
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged September in the rain on September 3, 2025|
Ocean Grove, Lake Avenue. September 30, 2016. By Paul Goldfinger © This image was inspired by Paul Strand’s 1916 photo “The White Fence.”
DINAH WASHINGTON: “Though spring is here, to me it’s still September…in the rain.”