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Faith Baptist Church. Wickapecko Rd. Ocean Township.   Paul Goldfinger photograph.  November 21, 2015. Click once to enlarge.

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor @ Blogfinger.net.

Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe and many other painters and photographers loved to go to Taos, New Mexico for one particular subject: The Rancho de Taos Church.

Andrew Wyeth painted about 1,000 studies of the farmhouse at Kuerner’s, his neighbor’s property in Pennsylvania.  Here is a link  we posted about that subject  Wyeth at Kuerners.  The Wyeth article continues to interest strangers  since many still visit BF to look at that image.

Harry Callahan was famous for his nude photographs, but he photographed only one woman—–his  model and muse: wife Eleanor.

George Tice, the famous New Jersey photographer who died recently, loved to photograph Paterson, NJ.  I met him and took a darkroom course with him. He said that if had to only photograph Paterson scenes for the rest of his life, he could happily do it.

My point is that artists tend to revisit sites and subjects that fascinate and inspire them.

One place that often gets my attention is the Faith Baptist Church on Wickapecko Drive in Ocean Township near the A. Park border. For years I returned there  during different times of year, but it always seemed to be empty, even on Sundays.

However  recently there have been services there again, and when those folks assembled outside  as the Sunday services resumed, there were young families  and the scene was coming to life. And the property is undergoing restoration.

I drove by on Easter, and many families, dressed brightly were outside cheerfully talking as the little kids ran around.   I didn’t photograph them this time.

Here is a link from my post about this beautiful site dated 2013

Faith Baptist Church 2013

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