Arvelee. Old Ft. Myers downtown, across from the river. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2012. Click image to enlarge.
JERRY ORBACH:
Archive for the ‘Photography from Florida’ Category
Old Florida near the Caloosahatchee River
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Jerry Orbach on Blogfinger on October 27, 2025|
FLEIADES
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged San Carlos Island on October 24, 2025|
San Carlos Island, Fla. Shrimp boat. This island was devastated with Ian on Oct. 2, 2022. By Paul Goldfinger . February, 2017. Click to enlarge
MANU DIBANGO
Smiling with a crocodile is a lot different than smiling at one.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Crocodiles on Blogfinger on October 19, 2025| 1 Comment »
Paul holds an alligator. It feels like a chicken. Eileen Goldfinger photo 2014.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
They say that you should never smile at a crocodile, but this one smiled at me, so what the heck avenue should I do? If you go to the Everglades, you can get to meet crocs. We saw one munching on a large anhinga (bird.)
This little guy seemed harmless enough, although I held him/her only long enough to get this photo.
And, from Peter Pan:
“Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can’t get friendly with a crocodile
Don’t be taken in by his welcome grin
He’s imagining how well you’d fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never tip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile.”
OK, here’s a joke (get ready for special instructions:) An elephant is drinking in the river. A crocodile swims over and bites off the elephant’s trunk. The elephant looks down and says (pinch your nose) , “Very funny, very funny.”
I taught my grandson Noah this joke—it was his first joke.
Everglade’s air-boat. Takes tourists on a wild ride through the Everglades Wilderness Waterway. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Riding around the Everglades in an air-boat driven by a local denizen, you can get close to a crocodile. (I guess it could be an alligator…not sure) I think the guides have a deal with the neighborhood crocs who secretly get pieces of meat to come near the boat.
Hello. What’s that ticking sound? This one came to the boat looking for spare change. He wanted to go for coffee. I suggested Starbucks. Paul Goldfinger photo.
BILL HALEY AND THE COMETS:
This moment in time…..
Posted in Photographs Sanibel and Captiva Islands Florida, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography: Florida, tagged Captiva Island on Blogfinger on August 3, 2025|
Captiva Island. Florida, . By Paul Goldfinger . Click once to enlarge.
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK :
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.
Ocean Grove lifestyles: Auditorium Pavilion
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography from Florida, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Auditorium Pavilion, in Ocean Gro on June 20, 2025| 1 Comment »
Auditorium Pavilion. Paul Goldfinger photo ©.Click to enlarge.
GREEN DAY: From their album American Idiot (2004)
“When you’re near, there’s such an air of spring about it.” (Cole Porter)
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Music from the stage, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography: Black and White gallery, tagged Music by Cole Porter on April 2, 2025| 1 Comment »
Naples, Florida. 2015. By Paul Goldfinger. Click once to enlarge.
SIMPLY RED “Every Time We Say Goodbye” from his album Simplified
This is one of my all time favorite songs. Words and music by Cole Porter for a stage show in 1944.
The lyrics are appreciated viscerally and down to your soul. One of the cleverest lyric lines in music occurs when it goes, “There’s no love song finer, but how strange the change from major to minor, every time we say goodbye.”
If you listen carefully you might be able to appreciate the change in chord progression during that line from A flat major to A flat minor—a brilliant musical moment where the music and lyrics match exactly and the meaning is deepened by the chord change.
Captiva Island, Florida southwest.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography: Sanibel and Captiva Islands, tagged Captiva Island, Jerome Kern on March 9, 2025|
Paul Goldfinger photograph. Captiva Island. Florida. Pirates once roamed here. Click on image to enlarge. Tri-X Collection.
“All the Things You Are.” Live with Ken Peplowski (clarinet) and Friends, honoring Benny Goodman (clarinetist and orchestra leader.). Jerome Kern wrote the music, and the words are by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Jazz musicians love this classic. Charlie Parker said that this song had his favorite lyrics. He used to call it “YATAG” which is an acronym for the lines “you are the angel glow” in the “B” part of the tune.
“You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long.
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
You are the angel glow that lights the star,
The dearest things I know are what you are.
Someday my happy arms will hold you,
And someday I’ll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine.”
Photos at the beach: San Carlos Bay
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography Ft. Myers, Photography: Black and White gallery, tagged Florida beach photo, Photo: Bunch Beach, Southwest Florida on December 23, 2024|
Paul Goldfinger © January, 2020. Southwest, Florida. Click once to enlarge.
LANA DEL REY “Blue Velvet.” This song is from 1950, and Tony Bennett was the first to have a hit with it. Lana Del Rey is a currently active recording star who made this version first in 2012, and it was well received.
David Lynch, who made the movie of the same name, liked it very much. Del Rey is a glamorous star who wore an off -the-rack dress from the mall to the Grammy Awards.
The version of Blue Velvet below is from her album Born to Die–the Paradise Edition (2018)
Her latest album was nominated but did not win at the 2020 Grammys. It is very good.
Lana Del Rey
Key West sunset celebration.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Key West Florida on November 19, 2024|
Corn popper. Key West. Paul Goldfinger photo © 2017.
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND TEDDY WILSON From the Essential Billie Holiday.
“Easy Living.”
This song (1937) is associated with “Lady Day,” and she and Teddy Wilson had the first hit.
Wassup Cow —blue moo, you saw me standing alone
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Wassup cow on November 9, 2024|
This is udderly ridiculous. Imagine calling a cow Fernando? Hello, I must be going. Portrait by Paul Goldfinger in Fort Myers, Florida.
ABBA
Farm Fresh in Fla.
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Farm fresh in Florida on October 23, 2024|
San Carlos Blvd. Fort Myers, Fla. Photo by Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net
EDWARD ELGAR “Salut d’Amour.”
Pastel beach
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, Photography--Boca Grande/Gasparilla series, tagged Nancy Wilson on Blogfinger on May 15, 2024|
Gasparilla Island, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge.
NANCY WILSON: This song is from 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics)
It was in a movie Romance in the Dark —-an idea that is a mixed blessing.