NAT KING COLE (requested by Kevin Chambers) The song is by Ray Noble from 1941, and there was a movie of the same name that featured this song. Re-posted—A girl in her summer clothes.
Archive for the ‘Photography in America’ Category
The very thought of you..
Posted in Blogfinger Music Department, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Girls in their summer clothes, Photography in America, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged Nat King Cole on Blogfinger on April 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Here we are as in olden days…
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography in America, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged Horse drawn carriage in New York City, Sierra Boggess on Blogfinger on April 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
SIERRA BOGGESS Album: New York City Christmas–a benefit for ASTEP. Christmas music is always in style.
Vanishing magic….
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Photography, Photography in America, Photography topics, tagged Ansel Adams, Moonrise Over Hernandez, The decisive moment in photography on March 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Deal Lake. Wickapecko Road where Wanamassa and Asbury Park meet. By Paul Goldfinger. March 21, 2015.© Click to enlarge. Re-postd from 2015.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
It was 34 degrees this morning at about 9:00 am when I drove on Wickapecko Road and noticed that the trees were lit up with snow. It was beautiful—Currier and Ives. I stopped and began walking over by the water. It was suddenly apparent that the temperature was causing the magical snow scene to quickly disappear. The white was melting, turning the trees from a snowy Christmas card to an icy, slushy exhibition, twinkling in the warming sunlight. Bits of frozen material were falling on my head making a clickity sort of sound on my hat—a sort of wintery “Raindrops are Falling on My Head.”
From a photographic point of view, not only was the light changing fast, but the subject was also being transformed from magical to mundane. I had to shoot fast, so I took about 15 quick frames, and it was all over.
It reminded me of Ansel Adams who was driving at dusk along a country road in New Mexico when he spotted a georgeous scene. He realized that he only had moments before the light was gone. He jumped out of his car and “struggled” to set up his large format camera on a tripod with the proper filters. He understood that he only had seconds before the moonlight would change. He took one frame and knew that negative would be the only one that would work. Later he wrote about how the painstaking process in the darkroom was accomplished.
Moonrise Over Hernandez became his most famous image.

“Moonrise over Hernandez.” Ansel Adams “almost ditched the car” when he spotted this scene near Sante Fe. Notice how the crosses are illuminated. Click to enlarge.
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK “Moonlight Becomes You.”
Faces at the beach in Fla La Land: Younger than springtime
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Florida connection on Blogfinger, Photography in America, Photography: Florida on February 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
GRAHAM BICKLEY with THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA From South Pacific
All my tomorrows
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography in America, tagged All My Tomorrows by Frank Sinatra on January 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography in America, Photography: Black and White gallery, Photography: Paul Goldfinger 20th century collection, tagged Louis Armstrong @Blogfinger.net on November 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »
LOUIS ARMSTRONG. He was a New Orleans great and a jazz innovator and pioneer.
Going to the movies—Do you remember?
Posted in Music from the movies, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography in America, tagged Billie Holiday on Blogfinger, Strand Theatre Oak Bluffs on November 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »

The Strand Theatre. Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard. c. 1997. By Paul Goldfinger © (reposted from 2014 on Blogfinger–and updated.) Tri-X Collection.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
We recently ran a post regarding the Ocean Grove North End’s Strand movie house which no longer exists. Some years ago I visited Oak Bluffs in Martha’s Vineyard where the Strand theatre there, a historic site, was still functioning. Oak Bluffs is where a camp meeting ground still exists on that island. Judging from the Bruce Willis film, the photo is from 1997.
The Strand Theatre in Oak Bluffs was built in the 1920’s and closed around 2010. After that it became a bicycle rental shop. But in 2015, the Martha’s Vineyard Theater Foundation raised money to reopen the Strand for movies.
Movies can seem so real and important, so the MV community made sure that their cinema was brought back to life. Back when, we told our kids, “It’s only a movie.” But the magic of movies draws you in.
Try to stay disengaged if you see “Captain Phillips” with Tom Hanks.
Seen any good movies lately ? Tell us if you have. Comment below.
Oh, do sad movies make you cry? Sue Thompson says, “Yes.” See below.
MERLE HAGGARD:
SUE THOMPSON:
America’s royalty? This cozy cottage is in the Hudson River Valley. Autumn in New York.
Posted in Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography in America, Photography. Rhinebeck New York series, tagged Autumn Hudson River Valley on Blogfinger on October 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Paul Goldfinger © Fox hunt anyone? This is the gilded age Mills Mansion in Staatsburg, NY . Looking for Maggie Smith? Click to enlarge and rent a room (Airbnb?)

Back down the hill is this view of the Hudson River in Staatsburg, NY. Autumn. Paul Goldfinger photo © c.2013 Click to enlarge.
RANI ARBO and DAISY MAYHEM
From the album Cocktail Swing
Fall colors 2017
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography Hudson River Valley, Photography in America, tagged Autumn Rhinebeck NY on October 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »
NEIL YOUNG:
Savannah 2013
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photographic Gallery, Color, Photography in America, tagged Savannah Wormsloe on September 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
ERIC CLAPTON AND STEVE WINWOOD (Live from Madison Square Garden)