Asbury Park Casino. A photo shoot. By Paul Goldfinger Undated
LANG LANG “Romance in E Minor” by Franz Liszt
Archive for the ‘Photographic Gallery: New Jersey’ Category
To have and to hold–when the Casino was a romantic place.
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography Asbury Park lifestyles, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Casino wedding party on May 11, 2025|
What a difference a day makes.
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, tagged What a difference a day makes on May 9, 2025| 2 Comments »
Deal Lake. September 5, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger ©
CLAUDIA CARBO from her album Momento Latino. The song is “Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado .”
Claudia Carbo
Deal, NJ: The Birthday Cake House at the Jersey Shore
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Blogfinger name that town contest, Deal house on April 4, 2025| 5 Comments »
Paul Goldfinger photograph. Click once to enlarge. Deal, NJ.
Geo George is the winner of our “name that Jersey Shore town contest.” This snazzy color scheme is a bit unusual for Deal.
THE NIGHTHAWKS: “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails”:
Where are you?
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Jersey Shore photography, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Sandy Hook Series, tagged Bob Dylan on Blogfinger, Sandy Hook photo on April 1, 2025|
Sandy Hook. 2015. By Paul Goldfinger ©
BOB DYLAN from the album “Shadows in the Night.”
Biker town
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Ocean Grove Gallery, tagged bicycles in Ocean Grove on March 29, 2025|
Ocean Grove. Auditorium Square Park. July 3, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
SEALS AND CROFTS:
High flier on Sunday…
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Sandy Hook Series on March 13, 2025|
Seaside Heights. Beginning to button down as fall tiptoes into town.
Posted in Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography Jersey Shore, tagged Seaside Heights in the fall. on February 6, 2025|
Seaside Heights boards. Closing attractions early; Sunday night crowds thin. No clams to be found. 9/16/18. 7 pm. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge.
JOHNNY CASH AND JUNE CARTER CASH:
Tenters gone. Silence remains.
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove tent colony, Ocean Grove tent village, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, tagged MUSIC: Another Winter in a Summer Town.", Tenters gone in winter on December 9, 2024|
Quiet tents. Winter in Ocean Grove. 2014. Paul Goldfinger photo
DISTURBED: “The Sound of Silence.”
The most beautiful cemetery in Monmouth County: 18th century Farmingdale.
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Brewer Cemetery, Jersey Shore cemetery in Farmindale, Jewel on Blogfinger on December 8, 2024| 4 Comments »
Brewer Burial Ground. Farmingdale, NJ. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2014.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor @Blogfinger.net
Jean Bredin just sent us a piece about a cemetery in New York State. So here is a local cemetery that interested me in 2014.
Photographers are sometimes drawn to cemeteries because they can be dramatic and lovely. But I rarely see a cemetery photo in an art gallery—I guess they don’t sell well. In my case, I almost never photograph in a cemetery because it’s depressing.
About the only time I get interested is if there is beauty and/or historical context, such as with this 18th century cemetery in Farmingdale. There is something mysterious and brooding about this place. I actually enjoyed walking around there trying to read the nearly obliterated inscriptions.
Brewer Burial Ground. James Johnson is there with his wife Rachel. He is 1764-1831. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2/14/25.
Paul Goldfinger photo.
This Brewer Burial Ground in Farmingdale, with its lonely setting, sitting forlornly by the side of a country road, seems wonderfully haunting. 7 historic veterans are buried there.
It is the final resting place of 1 veteran from the Revolutionary War, 1 from the War of 1812, and 5 from the Civil War.
The oldest grave there is of Pvt John E. Brewer, Revolutionary War veteran: b.1754 d. 1837.
Another veteran is Pvt. James M. Lippincott, 1841-1916, Co A, 14th NJ Volunteer Infantry.
I have visited cemeteries in Boston and New Brunswick which go back to the Revolutionary War, and they are absolutely fascinating if not beautiful.
Another gorgeous place is the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah where Johnny Mercer resides. You can take a ghost tour in Savannah. I have photos. (Remember the book/movie Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil—-set in Savannah?)
And we have posted a piece about the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond which goes back to the Civil War.
This Farmingdale cemetery would be great for HBO’s True Blood.
You can almost see the vampires coming out of the ground during the night to fly into Ocean Grove and seek some juicy jugular veins.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT from his album Want One
Easy to remember…
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, tagged Long Valley, Wynton Marsalis Standard Time on December 1, 2024|
Long Valley , New Jersey. 18th century historic homes. November, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger.
WYNTON MARSALIS “It’s Easy to Remember.” (Album version; Standard Time Vol. 3)
Sausage, peppers and onions at the Jersey Shore—mmmmm, you can almost smell it from here.
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, tagged Fun and games for two, Photo: Seaside Heights on October 15, 2024| 7 Comments »
Fun and games at Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Sausage, peppers and onions sizzling on the grill. Photo by Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net
If someone were to sell a trade-mark food on the Ocean Grove boardwalk, what would it be? Pastrami on white bread with mayo, perhaps? Or how about tea for two?
BEVERLY KENNEY from the album This is Vintage Now
DISKO : Summer in Seaside Heights
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Seaside Heights on Blogfinger, Young love in Seaside Heights on September 27, 2024|
Seaside Heights, NJ. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger. click to enlarge. This Jersey Shore town has a long tradition of youthful summer romance.
THE McGARRIGLE HOUR with Kate and Anna, and Chaim Tannenbaum, and Lily Lanken.
Seaside horses and a Brazilian cool-jazz back-ground.
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Horses in Seaside Heights, Paul Desmond on Blogfinger on September 26, 2024|
Seaside Heights. October, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net
Below a scene from Mighty Aphrodite. Paul Desmond’s music was featured.
When I was a high school and college musician, I played a French made Selmer alto sax, as did Desmond.
Paul Desmond was my musical hero. I always tried to emulate his “cool” style. It was a sweet sound which touched me for its floating-in-air quality.
Paul Desmond. The search for a perfect reed is the bane of a sax man’s life. Internet photo. Reed sentiment is mine: PG
He was not only a performer with the group, but he was a jazz composer as well, and his “Take Five” was the first jazz song to sell a million copies. Paul Desmond’s sound provided a special flavor for the Dave Brubeck Quartet and was widely copied by jazz musicians like me as a member of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Jazz Band and leader of the Paul Gary Quartet. (seen below on a Selmer tenor sax)
Bunny, I, Charlie (bass) and Frank (drums) warming up in Frank’s basement in Rutherford. We were college kids. Bunny and I were from FDU while Frank went to Seton Hall. Charlie was a precocious high school senior whose girlfriend was our groupie. Bunny rarely sang, but when she did, it was “Willow Weep for Me.” (We weeped for her singing.) Bunny was so slim that she could play between the white keys. Wallpaper compliments of Frank’s Mom. There are no recordings of our group.
Desmond’s remarkable tempo style was featured in Woody’s 1995 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”
The song below, “Romance de Amor,” is a Brazilian composition by Paul. It is from the album Skylark.
Paul Desmond drank and smoked heavily. He died at 52 of cancer.
Romance de Amor. (Love Song). Written by Paul Desmond.