Photographer at pier’s end braves high winds and rain to get his shot. 10 am. October 27, 2018. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge all these images.  Blogfinger.net

Lisa of Ocean Grove strolls onto the desolate  beach, despite the nasty weather.  10:30 am. Oct 27, 2018. ©   Paul Goldfinger photo.  Blogfinger.net.  Click to enlarge.

Lisa. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Oct 27, 2018. © Click to enlarge.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net

There were only two people at the beach front when I showed up, barely able to walk against the wind and driving rain. My estimate of the wind velocity was 50 mph.  The guy at the end of the pier just stood there and kept taking photos.

There also was a young woman, Lisa of Ocean Grove, who walked onto the beach, but later, after getting another camera and returning, I found her standing alone at the foot of the pier. The guy who had been on the pier’s end was now gone.

Lisa, who is new to Ocean Grove, was squinting into the blowing sand.  But she just stood there and smiled.  I asked her why she wasn’t leaving, and she said, “I love it.”

I said, “You are brave being out here.”

She responded with a big grin, and as the sandy wind was pelting her, she said, “Maybe I can be the first woman on the moon.”

I’m thinking, “Anything’s possible.”

By the way, Lisa, who is now staying in a hotel in town, is looking for a place to live. If you have something, just email me, and if Lisa contacts BF after reading this, I can pass along the information.

We couldn’t hang out there for long, but it was long enough that I decided to make a portrait of her, despite the wind and the rain. See the next post for that.   I gave her our web address.

Oct. 27, 2018. Main Avenue in Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©

Downtown, a NY bound bus idled by the Post Office.  The exhaust smoke was funneling upward.  The driver looked my way as I snapped a photo.  A branch had blown down, but there didn’t seem to be any damage.

The storm should quiet down later today.  It is just two  days short of the 6th anniversary of Sandy.

JULIE RAFFERTY   from her album No Finer Place.   The song is from The Fantasticks.