Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove Musical Event, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photos from the Great Auditorium, tagged Elijah in Ocean Grove, Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove New Jersey on October 27, 2025|
The Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove. Getting ready to perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” conducted by Jason Tramm. August 28, 2016. The musicians are from the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click to enlarge.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net. 2016 post.
Kudos to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for making such remarkable events possible in our town.
STEPHEN DOUGHTY Elijah Part 2. “He, watching over Israel, slumbers not.”
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Blogfinger Presents, Girls in summer clothes Jersey shore, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Lovely day in Asbury Park on August 25, 2025|
Asbury Park. August 11, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photograph © Blogfinger.net.
BEVERLY KENNY
Posted in Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Photography the other side of Asbury Park, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged 2nd Life Bike shop on July 21, 2025|
2nd Life Bikes. 21 Main Street; Asbury Park. 6/22/16. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click to enlarge.
JOHN BARRY “Somewhere in Time” This English composer has won 5 Academy Awards. This piece was for the movie of the same name.
Blogfinger posted a piece about this bike shop in 2014. Here is the link. There are some black and white images from that shoot.
https://blogfinger.net/2014/04/11/the-asbury-bike-connection-second-hand-bikes/
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)
Posted in Ocean Grove Gallery, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, Photography: Ocean Grove Gallery, tagged Wesley Lake Bridge on May 17, 2025|
Wesley Lake. Paul Goldfinger photo. Looking towards OG from Asbury Park. 2015. Click once to enlarge.
Frank Sinatra. “At Long Last Love.”
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove 150th Anniversary, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography Nights in Ocean Grove, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Ocean Grove birthday on March 24, 2025|
Boardwalk Pavilion. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Ocean Grove, NJ. 8/10/19 Click to enlarge.
KEVIN SPACEY from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove parks, Ocean Grove summer time, Ocean Grove things we did last summer, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Best friends in Ocean Grove on March 23, 2025|
BARRY MANILOW:
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Arrow Acres Farm in Wall Township. This family has roots back into the 1600’s in this area. July, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
BILLY JOEL
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Jersey Shore gallery photo on March 5, 2025| 12 Comments »
The “golden hour.” Image was shot from Deal, but the white building is the Allenhurst Beach Club. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
Note: The comments reflect a “name that town” contest we had regarding this image.
SOPHIE MILMAN
Posted in Ocean Grove lifestyles, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography: girls in summer clothes, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Auditorium Park in Ocean Grove on February 22, 2025|
Ocean Grove Auditorium Square Park. August 2010. ©. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net Click to enlarge
HARRY JAMES AND HIS ORCHESTRA from Woody’s film Hannah and Her Sisters.
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Ocean Grove beach. July 24, 2019. Blogfinger photo: Paul Goldfinger Click to enlarge.
PHIL HARRIS AND BRUCE REITHERMAN from The Jungle Book
Posted in Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Brewer Cemetery, Jersey Shore cemetery in Farmindale, Jewel on Blogfinger on December 8, 2024| 4 Comments »
Brewer Burial Ground. Farmingdale, NJ. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2014.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor @Blogfinger.net
Jean Bredin just sent us a piece about a cemetery in New York State. So here is a local cemetery that interested me in 2014.
Photographers are sometimes drawn to cemeteries because they can be dramatic and lovely. But I rarely see a cemetery photo in an art gallery—I guess they don’t sell well. In my case, I almost never photograph in a cemetery because it’s depressing.
About the only time I get interested is if there is beauty and/or historical context, such as with this 18th century cemetery in Farmingdale. There is something mysterious and brooding about this place. I actually enjoyed walking around there trying to read the nearly obliterated inscriptions.
Brewer Burial Ground. James Johnson is there with his wife Rachel. He is 1764-1831. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2/14/25.
Paul Goldfinger photo.
This Brewer Burial Ground in Farmingdale, with its lonely setting, sitting forlornly by the side of a country road, seems wonderfully haunting. 7 historic veterans are buried there.
It is the final resting place of 1 veteran from the Revolutionary War, 1 from the War of 1812, and 5 from the Civil War.
The oldest grave there is of Pvt John E. Brewer, Revolutionary War veteran: b.1754 d. 1837.
Another veteran is Pvt. James M. Lippincott, 1841-1916, Co A, 14th NJ Volunteer Infantry.
I have visited cemeteries in Boston and New Brunswick which go back to the Revolutionary War, and they are absolutely fascinating if not beautiful.
Another gorgeous place is the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah where Johnny Mercer resides. You can take a ghost tour in Savannah. I have photos. (Remember the book/movie Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil—-set in Savannah?)
And we have posted a piece about the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond which goes back to the Civil War.
This Farmingdale cemetery would be great for HBO’s True Blood.
You can almost see the vampires coming out of the ground during the night to fly into Ocean Grove and seek some juicy jugular veins.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT from his album Want One
