Key West, Florida. Hemingway’s favorite.
Photo by Paul Goldfinger. Silver gelatin print. © Click to enlarge.
JESSI ALEXANDER Album: Remembering Patsy Cline
Jessi Alexander
Archive for the ‘Photography from Florida’ Category
Key West
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Time to say goodbye…
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Gasparilla Island, Florida. 2015. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN: “Pie Jesu” by Andrew Lloyd Weber from his Requiem
Sanibel Island Lighthouse Beach
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographs Sanibel and Captiva Islands Florida, Photography from Florida on November 11, 2023| 2 Comments »
Paul Goldfinger photo. Sanibel Island Lighthouse Beach. Feb 11, 2020. Click to enlarge.
No beach fees, no lifeguards, no crowds in peak season, no boardwalk, no food concessions, and no schlock shops. There are no condominiums anywhere in sight.
But there are clean and airy bathrooms hidden among the trees.
There is a parking lot which charges $5.00 per hour.
ART GARFUNKEL. “Kathy’s Song” from the album The Singer.
Southwest Florida trailer park, aka manufactured home community
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Ft. Myers, Fla. Feb. 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to enlarge this single- wide.
THE TWO OF US:
No lifeguards, no boardwalk, no badges, no cotton candy, no kidding: it’s a Florida beach in Naples.
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Naples Florida beach on the Gulf of Mexico on September 13, 2023| 1 Comment »
Naples, southwest Florida. Choppy waters on the Gulf of Mexico. Paul Goldfinger photo. March 2016. Click to enlarge.
Naples is a fabulous city in southwest Florida. The downtown is elegant with beautiful shops and restaurants. Yet, despite attracting tourists, the beaches are open and uncrowded. That’s because they don’t want to attract throngs, so there is plenty of parking and no mega events to force the residents into their homes such as happens in Ocean Grove and continues into September and beyond.
This photograph is from March, peak season for southern Florida.
MATT MONRO from the movie The Sand Pebbles.
Thomas Edison’s winter home…
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Thomas Edison estate in Fort Myers, Florida. There were good lights in his house. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge
Link to our post on this subject one year ago:
https://blogfinger.net/2015/06/24/thomas-edison-hung-out-on-the-shores-of-the-caloosahatchee-river/
BEVERLY KENNEY
At the tomato farm in Ft.Myers, Florida.
Posted in Florida connection, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Tomato farm in Florida on August 26, 2023| 1 Comment »
Rugged farm workers climb aboard a machine to place tomato plants by hand into the machine-made holes with special soil in plastic. Fields are rotated to always have ripe fruits. Paul Goldfinger photo. Feb 15, 2015.
Old equipment is scattered around.
all photos by Paul Goldfinger
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB “El Carretero”
Last light ’till tomorrow.
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Gulf of Mexico, Florida. By Paul Goldfinger 2014.
FIORELLO. Original Broadway Cast.
Faces at the Farmers’ Market: He grows veggies on his own farm.
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Lakes Parks Farmers’ Market. Ft. Myers, Fla. Jan. 2015. He has unusual goods including small white radishes, multicolored sweet peppers, kale and red lettuce. By Paul Goldfinger . Click to enlarge.
SECRET SISTERS:
Island flower and choir
Posted in Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photographs Sanibel and Captiva Islands Florida, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged John Rutter on July 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Sanibel Island, Southwest Fla. By Paul Goldfinger. 2003. Click to enlarge. Silver gelatin print by the photographer.
JOHN RUTTER WITH THE CAMBRIDGE SINGERS AND THE CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA: “For the Beauty of the Earth.”
Wedding in Fla La Land.
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography from Florida, Photography Ft. Myers, tagged Florida wedding on Blogfinger, Photo: a decisive moment on May 18, 2023| 1 Comment »
Wedding Party. Edison Estate on the Caloosahatchee River. Fort Myers, Florida. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger. -Blogfinger.net .
—Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
This photo requires a bit of narrative. It’s a gorgeous Saturday in Fort Myers, Florida, at the Edison Estate (the winter home of Thomas A.)
We’re milling about, sizing up the tour which we are about to take, when a white limo pulls up. Out spills the bridal party. The wedding photographer is fumbling with his equipment, and the women form a protective ring around the bride.
So here I am with my camera, and this scene unfolds right in front of me. I pick up my Leica M-9 and start shooting. I’m caught up in the event. I’m a paparazzi, circling the scene like a shark—moving in with my wide angle lens.
Just then, a cell phone rings multiple times, with the sound coming from the right side. It’s the bride’s mother’s phone. I snap the photo, and then the bride says, “Mom!! I think your phone’s ringing!!”
Editor’s note: The bride was so beautiful; I can’t leave it like this–with Mom’s phone ringing. Let’s fast forward and imagine a moment later in the day when all attention is focused on the bride.
Here are the JAGUARS: This is one of the all-time great love songs—-By Jerome Kern (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics.) Dorothy said that she cried when she first heard Kern’s melody.
Key West sunset celebration.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography from Florida, tagged Key West Florida on May 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
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.
Oboe concerto and southwest Florida
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Ft. Myers, Florida. By Paul Goldfinger 2015. © Click to enlarge
ALISON BALSOM AND THE SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE. “Oboe Concerto in C Minor II Adagio” Composer A. Marcello