B&W Beach Photoblogging
8 comments January 18th, 2007at 05:59pm Posted by Eli
Yes, Jacob Riis Park has a beach, and, well, it’s rather dismal. Hopefully it’s a lot nicer in the summer…
Apparently I am not the last photographer on Earth.
I like drinking fountains, especially defunct ones.
I guess this is not exactly a surprise…
Um, seriously, I think something terrible has happened to the lifeguards… 
Entry Filed under: NJ/NYC,Photoblogging
8 Comments
1. The Kenosha Kid | January 18th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I used to go swimming there when I was five or so. When we got home my parents would have to pull all the tar and crap off the bottom of my feet. We called it “Grease Park.”
2. Elmo | January 18th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
I don’t know anything about Jacob Riis Park, but that first pic moved me. The pics following it scared me so I focused one the first.
Its wide open spaces with the clearly defined lines of the fence, complimented perpendicularly? by that standpipe thingy…
All of it, told me I was normal.
3. Eli | January 18th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I used to go swimming there when I was five or so. When we got home my parents would have to pull all the tar and crap off the bottom of my feet. We called it “Grease Park.”
I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, that maybe it was better “in season”…
The pics following it scared me so I focused one the first.
Its wide open spaces with the clearly defined lines of the fence, complimented perpendicularly? by that standpipe thingy…
Yeah, it’s pretty bleak and, well… dead. I think the standpipe thingy is actually the water fountain in the next pic, or one just like it.
4. Ruth | January 19th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Wonderful pics. Since I lived in Chincoteague and often went to the beach during off-season, this really feels like home to me. Of course, if it were in Chincoteague, there would be wild ponies too, which is very nice.
5. charley | January 19th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
jacob riis.
took me a minute, then i remembered who he was.
your photos remind me more of robert adams.
6. Eli | January 19th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Thanks, charley and Ruth!
Yeah, I can totally see the Robert Adams thing, although I was more going for *Charles* Addams…
Tonight: Birds!
7. Karin | January 19th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
If you’re still in NY, I hope you check out the new stuff that just opened at the ICP today.
Munkacsi and Cartier-Bresson
8. Eli | January 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Alas no, I’m long gone…