Archive for the ‘Photography: Florida’ Category
Thomas Edison hanging around in Ft. Myers
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Camelia River
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography Ft. Myers, Photography: Florida, tagged Yiddish music on Blogfinger on January 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »
THE KLEZMER CONSERVATORY BAND Album Yiddishe Renaissance. “Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen”
“Raisins with Almonds,” a Yiddish lullaby, was composed in 1880 by Avrohom Goldfaden as part of a musical play “Shulamis” in the Yiddish theater.
“Due to its beautiful melody and its words, it could be understood as a metaphor for the exile of the Jewish people and their promised redemption.” (Encyclopedia of the Jews in Eastern Europe)
Threesome by the bay
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography: Florida, Photography: Sanibel and Captiva Islands, tagged Emmy Rossum on January 24, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Paul Goldfinger ©. San Carlos Bay. Sanibel Island Causeway. January 2019.
EMMY ROSSUM
Micanopy #5: Wars, crops and prosperity….for awhile.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography: Florida, Photography: Micanopy series, tagged Micanopy 2018 on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Micanopy 2017. Paul Goldfinger ©. The owner stays open until tourists drive off.
In the 19th century, the town of Micanopy, Fla. prospered with agriculture; then, in sequence came cane sugar, cotton, vegetables, oranges and lumber.
In 1836 there was a battle with the local Seminole Indians. The US Army showed up to rescue the town, and a fort was built. There were settlers and some slaves in the town. But later, the town’s founder Moses Levy, a Jewish immigrant from Morocco, encouraged schools and opposed slavery.
These days (December, 2018) it is a tourist town on the National Historic Register. Antiques used to be big in Micanopy, but now millennials hate that old stuff. It is a fine place to visit and explore for a couple of hours.
Last year I bought a T shirt, but this year they were sold out. The town panhandler hit me up, and a young couple were posing for a professional wedding photographer. I snapped a couple of frames from a distance; the groom looked at me and gave me a grin and a thumbs up.
A guitarist was playing outside some shops. He said that he has made some country recordings. A hat on the ground collected some change and bills. Christmas decorations were scattered about.
Micanopy is near Gainesville (U. of Florida) and had a population of 600 in the last Census.
BOB DYLAN: “The Man in Me.”
Bob Dylan. Photographer unknown.
Girls in their summer clothes: Bunche Beach, Fla.
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Florida, Photography: girls in summer clothes, tagged Bunche Beach Florida on January 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Ft. Myers, Fla. Feb 18, 2018. © Paul Goldfinger photograph. Click to enlarge.
THE McGUIRE SISTERS:
Morning at the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge
Posted in Florida connection, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Florida, tagged Preservation Hall Jazz Band on July 21, 2018| 1 Comment »
Sanibel Island, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. Early morning. 2006. By Paul Goldfinger © Enlarge by clicking on the image.
THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND OF NEW ORLEANS with “His Eye is on the Sparrow.” This gospel hymn is often performed at African-American church services. It goes back over 100 years.
My Week With Marilyn
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography: Florida, tagged Marilyn Monroe on Blogfinger on May 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Boca Grande, Fla. Paul Goldfinger © Click on image to enlarge.
CONRAD POPE with “Arthur’s Notebook”
From the 2011 movie: My Week with Marilyn starring Michelle Williams in an award winning performance as Marilyn Monroe.
The notebook writer is Marilyn Monroe’s husband playwright Arthur Miller. In 1960, Arthur wrote something very special for Marilyn. Click on our link below to read about that and to see the two of them dancing on the set of The Misfits.
And also to hear a wonderful jazz performance by Toots Thielemans with Til Bronner. I love this song.
Meanwhile here is some music from the movie “My Week with Marilyn.”
CONRAD POPE ( American composer) from the movie:
And here is the link to the Blogfinger article from last year with the photograph of the couple dancing.
Faces at the beach in Fla La Land: Younger Than Springtime from South Pacific.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photography in America, Photography: Florida, tagged South Pacific on Blogfinger on May 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Paul Goldfinger ©. Bunche Beach. Click to enlarge
GRAHAM BICKLEY with THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA From South Pacific
Faces at the Farmers’ Market: a series of images from Southwest Florida
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Ft. Myers, Photography series Faces at the Farmers' Market, Photography: Florida, tagged Faces at the Farmers Market--Ft. Myers on April 11, 2018| Leave a Comment »
MRS BMW. Lakes Park, Ft. Myers. By Paul Goldfinger ©. Blogfinger.net
MAX RAABE AND THE PALAST ORCHESTER from their album Golden Age (Live at Carnegie Hall 2007)
Blogfinger’s annual “name that bird” contest. It’s an Anhinga. Janet Kaden wins.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Photography Ft. Myers, Photography: Florida on February 25, 2018| 4 Comments »
Photographed by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. February, 2018. Southwest Florida. © Click to enlarge.
The winner will receive an original Jack Bredin signed and numbered print . Janet. Please send us your contact info: —Blogfinger@verizon.net
NEIL YOUNG “Birds” (Live at Sugar Mountain)
“Nestled in your wings my little one
This special morning brings another sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come
Today”
