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Horse Show at Chubb Park in Chester Township, New Jersey. Chester is not far from where the US Equestrian team trains. By Paul Goldfinger.  Click image for full view.  Reposted.

 

Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net. 10/3/23.

This photograph shows the gentle and elegant sport of horses and all the rituals, postures, clothing and casual styles of these aficionados blended with the formality of it all.

When we lived in Chester, we often saw “horse people” (usually women) shopping or walking around town in their special clothes. I like the black coats and hats on these riders.

That’s why I chose Gato Barbieri’s “Girl in Black”  (Para mi Negra) — a tango by the jazz saxophonist  (b. 1934 in Argentina) who wrote the incredible score for film The Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando.

This song seems to fit for this photo. Argentina is horse country, and the tango is very  sexy.

Do you see any of that in this  photo?  How do those riders get out of those pants anyhow?

 

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Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2001 ©

Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2001 ©.

GEMA 4.   “Cómo Fue”  This group is an acapella quartet from Cuba, but currently there are 3 Cubans and one Israeli.

Gema 4

Gema 4

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Martha's Vineyard. By Paul Goldfinger. Undated silver gelatin print. © Farmer’s  daughters. Martha’s Vineyard. By Paul Goldfinger. Undated silver gelatin darkroom print. © Click to enlarge.

 

K.D. LANG from the Patsy Cline album

 

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Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. c.1999. By Paul Goldfinger

Photograph above:    Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. c.1999. By Paul Goldfinger   Silver gelatin darkroom print. (PG).

 

TONY BENNETT AND THE RALPH SHARON ORCHESTRA live  at Carnegie Hall in 1962. There they celebrated the seasons:   New York in June  with “How About You,” and  Paris in April with  “April in Paris”

“How About You” was written by Vernon Duke (music)  and E.Y. Harburg   (lyrics)   for a 1932 Broadway show “Walk a Little Faster.”

 

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Aix-en-Provence, France. By Paul Goldfinger.

Aix-en-Provence, France. A university town.  Photograph by Paul Goldfinger.   Silver gelatin print by PG. 

 

VICTOR GARBER  from the score of Annie.   “Something Was Missing.”

 

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Chester Township, New Jersey. c. 1995. By Paul Goldfinger

Dover-Chester Road.  Chester Township, New Jersey. c. 1995. By Paul Goldfinger

LEONARD COHEN

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April, 2015. By Paul Goldfinger

April, 2015. By Paul Goldfinger

 

CHAIM TANNENBAUM   “Time On My Hands.”   From the McGarrigle Hour album.

“Once you were with me
Now you’re gone
People just hurry on along their way.”

 

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Ocean Pathway Photo by Rich Despins ©. Special to Blogfinger.net Undated.

Ocean Pathway photo by Rich Despins of Bradley Beach . Special to Blogfinger.net   Undated.  Special to Blogfinger in 2015.

 

 

This image by Rich can be best seen by clicking on it to cause it to become larger.

 

ERROLL GARNER    “Misty”

 

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“La Vie En Rose”.   Lady GaGa from A Star is Born.

 

 

 

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Guadalajara school kids. Award winning photograph by Paul Goldfinger. ©

 

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

 

Perhaps you are wondering why I was in Guadalajara instead of  Acapulco or Puerto Vallarta.  Guadalajara is the capital  of the state of Jalisco, in the Pacific western region. It is a fine city with great restaurants, shopping and friendly people; and it is also the home of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara: UAG School of Medicine, where many Americans attend medical school.

I was a visiting professor (cardiology) there and I got to lecture in a large auditorium with a glass booth high up in the back where they did simultaneous translation. That was good for me, because my Spanish was limited to a few phrases like, “Mas Dos Equis por favor” (which means, “Another ‘Two X’s‘ beer please”).  I had reason to suspect those translations because, when I launched a one-liner, only the Americans laughed — they were the ones without earphones. Maybe it’s about how you tell a joke.

In the photo, I approached a group of school kids, and they immediately morphed into the Marx Brothers. This is one of my favorite photographs and it was published.

Guadalajara is where mariachi music was invented. It is fun and lively, but when you are in that area, it seems like wherever you go, the mariachi follow. “Jalisco, Jalisco” is, of course, played a lot in that city.

 

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By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff ©. Undated

Sunrise.  Ocean Grove.   By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff.  Click to enlarge.

 

THE ATOMIC KITTEN (2002 hit version)

 

Atomic Kitten

Atomic Kitten

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Moonrise.   By Paul Goldfinger  © Click to enlarge. Hudson River Valley.

 

By Paul Goldfinger.  Editor Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ.  Re-post from September, 2012 on Blogfinger.

 

Today, the glow of the moon, of the moonrise, or the moon over the ocean, or over the river….makes me think of Andy Williams.

I  first listened to his new song, “Moon River,” playing on my car radio one night in 1961. That evening I was alone in my old Plymouth driving home from a date with my future wife, Eileen.  I knew that “Moon River” had to be our song.

When I called the band leader for the wedding, he had never heard of the song, but he promised to look into it. And he did.  I always suspected that Eileen and I were among the first  to choose that song.

Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics, and Henry Mancini the music. It was very beautiful, but I never exactly knew what a “huckleberry friend” was;  somehow I imagined I knew what kind of friend that was.

Today I finally looked it up, and the Urban Dictionary says, “There are your good friends: people who love you. And then there are your huckleberry friends: people who’ve known you for years and have stuck by you and love you no matter what.”Here are some of the lyrics from that  song whiich  was featured in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

 

“There’s such a lot of world to see
We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waitin’ ’round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me”

 

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Somewhere at the Jersey Shore. By Paul Goldfinger. Made with Kodachrome.

Thrills.    By Paul Goldfinger. Made with Kodachrome.

 

THE EXCELLENTS

 

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