Tropicana. Ft. Myers, Fla. Feb. 2017. All they need is a blue moon. Click to enlarge. Paul Goldfinger photograph
KEITH URBAN: “Blue Ain’t Your Color.”
Archive for the ‘Florida photography’ Category
Color coordinated down to the car and the driveway.
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography on March 12, 2026| 1 Comment »
Black and white sunset….Gulf of Mexico
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Sunset at Bunch Beach in Ft. Myers, Florida by Paul Goldfinger. Click to enlarge.
It’s a black and white sunset, and someone once asked me how I could photograph a colored flower in black and white.
The answer is that color may be pretty, but the soul of a photograph is in the light—the luminance.
And there may be other intangibles to a black and white image which attract appreciation, such as the way George Harrison sees a certain woman below.
Paul Goldfinger . Bunche Beach, Florida.
BEATLES. “Something” was written by George Harrison, the Beatles’ lead guitarist for the 1961 album Abbey Road. This is from the One (1) album.
“Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how..”
Lounge act….
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, tagged Sanibel Island photo on January 10, 2026|
Can we take our masks off ?
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography on December 7, 2025|
These three beautiful purveyors of hand-crafted creations were happy to be mask free for this Paul Goldfinger photograph. I said, “OK girls take a deep breast.” The joke is mine; the smiles are theirs. 1/8/21 ©
January 8, 2021. Fort Myers, Florida.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
I tried to photograph this threesome who were selling hand-crafted jewelry at the Outlets Farmers Market on Friday. It was the first day this season, so there was a great deal of enthusiasm. These lovely young ladies weren’t feeling the groove posing for a photo with the masks on, so they asked.
It seemed safe enough with them distanced from all the customers and wearing masks all along. When they took off their masks they were busting out all over—big smiles erupted, and you can see how much was being missed under those masks.
From now on I will try to ask my street photography subjects to briefly unmask. After all, a photo only takes 1/250th of a second. So I took one exposure, the smiles lingered for a few moments, and then the masking resumed.
THE CAST OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S FOLLIES:
Photos at the beach: #6, Ft. Myers, Florida 2020.
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, Photography: Photos at the Florida beach, tagged Beach photos florida on November 20, 2025| 1 Comment »
Click to enlarge unless you have 20 20 vision. Paul Goldfinger photo Jan. 2020. For Frank.
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK. (Well, southwest Fla is south of the border, is it not? ay yie, ay yie. )
“Hello, this book will change your life…..”
Posted in Blogfinger Art Department, Blogfinger on Broadway, Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, tagged The Book of Mormon at Blogfinger on November 10, 2025|
Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the campus of Florida SouthWestern College in Fort Myers, Florida. January, 2017. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net.
We went to the Barbara Mann to see the Book of Mormon. It had received many accolades, but we didn’t care for it very much. The subject matter was often pretty gross and unpleasant, plus it was anti-religious, especially towards the Mormons; as well as condescending and/or obnoxious towards a variety of groups including blacks, gays and women.
However, the musical song and dance numbers were often wonderful, such as “Hello” which opened the show (see below).
The show is about the pairs of young men who are sent on two year religious missions all over the world to try to gain converts to the Mormon Church. In the opening number, a group of missionaries dressed in their usual black pants, white shirts and ties, with name tags, perform this lively number called “Hello.” The song is about how they go from door to door, ringing doorbells, with their sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement.
They try to interest people in their religion with the ultimate goal of baptizing them. This show is set in a primitive village in Uganda, so the young Elders have their work cut out for them.
The Barbara Mann Theater has a high, grand entrance-way illuminated by the lights shown in the photograph above. The packed house seemed to love the show and gave it a standing ovation with whistles and cheers, although some folks around us left at intermission.
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST OF BOOK OF MORMON with the opening number “Hello!”
Bright lights for Sarah Brightman.
Posted in Florida photography, tagged Bunche Beach Florida on October 25, 2025|
Ft. Myers’ Bunche Beach. 2016. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to enlarge.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN: “O Mio Babbino Caro” from her album Classics. The composer is Giacomo Puccini from his opera Gianni Schicchi
Three graces
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, Photograph by Michael Goldfinger, tagged Naples Florida on July 27, 2025|
Naples, Florida. 3rd Avenue. Paul Goldfinger photo © March, 2016
BING CROSBY AND THE ANDREWS SISTER:
Tampa food truck #2: French crepes.
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, French Connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Tampa Florida food truck on June 21, 2025| 1 Comment »
La Creperia and Café. Tampa, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge. 2018.
JOSEPHINE BAKER “Nuit d’Alger”
And below is a link to another Josephine Baker song called “I Have Two Loves.” The scene is Paris, and that is a very Parisienne thing to do, and tres dangeroux.
Sanibel Island fishing pier….destroyed in 2022 and to be rebuilt.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, Sanibel and Captiva Islands Florida, tagged Sanibel fishing pieir on November 27, 2024|
Sanibel Island in southwest Florida. It has 15 miles of sandy beaches. At its eastern tip is the famous Sanibel Lighthouse and the fishing pier, seen above. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click to enlarge. Tri-X collection. c.1999.
NEIL DIAMOND:
Carefully taught…
Posted in Florida photography, Photographs Sanibel and Captiva Islands Florida, tagged Karrin Allyson on Blogfinger, Rodgers and Hammerstein on Blogfinger on November 9, 2024|
Sanibel Island, Fla. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to enlarge.
KARRIN ALLYSON
From South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III
Use caution on our beaches.
Posted in Florida photography on July 5, 2024|
Boynton Beach, Florida’s east coast. Paul Goldfinger photo ©. 2015
KATE AND ANNA McGARRIGLE with MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
Did Italians invent the wheel? We met two gentlemen from Verona who seem to think so.
Posted in Blogfinger feature article, Blogfinger food department, Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Florida photography, tagged Italian food on Blogfinger, Leone cheese own Blogfinger, Mario's Italian market in Ft. Myers Florida on May 2, 2024| 1 Comment »
Parmigiano cheese wheel at Mario’s Italian market in Fort Myers, Fla. 1/27/17. Blogfinger.net photo. ©
By Eileen Goldfinger and Paul Goldfinger, Editors @Blogfinger.net. Photography by Eileen Goldfinger.
If you think that you can’t get authentic Italian cuisine in Florida, you haven’t visited Mario’s Meat Market and Deli in Fort Myers (southwest Fla). This remarkable food store has customers taking numbers and lining up at the counter where you can get incredible breads, meats, sauces, homemade sausage, cheeses, wines, desserts, and custom sandwiches.
For example, one of their specialty heros is called “The Italian” and consists of salami, pepperoni, capicola, provolone, lettuce, tomato, onion, hot peppers, oil and vinegar on a superb role with sesame seeds. Some people can’t wait to get home, so they chow down at tables arranged outside.
The people at the counter were remarkably helpful and cheerful. Some of them are professional cooks, so they will tell you how to prepare, for example , an authentic meat dish “braciole.”
We were there picking up supplies for an Italian dinner that Eileen was planning and we stumbled on a “rare” culinary event. Representatives from a large cheese manufacturer (“Leone”) from the mountainous Verona region of Italy were preparing to “open” one of their huge wheels. They were readying a parmigiano cheese called Monte Veronese, made from cow’s milk, specially prepared for Mario’s.
Getting ready to open the wheel. Mike Tuccillo (sales manager for Leone L.) Mario Pica (store owner,) and Gabriele Leone R.) © Blogfinger.net photo. Ft. Myers, Fla. 1/27/17
What was unique about this wheel was that it had been aged for five years, much longer than most cheeses from that northeast region where much of the Italian cheese-making occurs. The storage facility is kept at 80% humidity and 61 degrees F.
No one knows how long wheels have been the motif for storing cheese, but this variety has been made for nearly 900 years. To open the wheel requires great skill and experience if it is done in the traditional way—- manually with knives. Usually they use machines.
Gabriele Leone, the owner of the Leone company, brought out some special tools. He worked very carefully, but after watching this demonstration, I was amazed that he still has all his fingers. He was cheered on by the company’s bilingual American representative Mike Tuccillo and by Mario Pica, the owner of this remarkable store.
Eileen Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net 1/27/17 ©
When he finally opened the wheel, it was a very special event and the performance received a round of applause. Then Gabriele began to offer chunks of the parmigiano, which is a hard cheese that tends to crumble. It is usually sold as wedges or grated. It should be stored in the refrigerator where it can last for up to 6 months. If a little mold begins to appear, just cut it off. We tried some, and it was delicious: fragrant and tasty.
Photo by Eileen Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net/ 1/27/17 ©
Mike explained that the company is beginning to export their unique aged products to America. Thanks to Mike, Gabriele and Mario for giving Blogfinger access to this very special event.
DEAN MARTIN: