Leaving Wildwood, N.J. earlier this summer, I hit a little traffic jam alongside a nightclub. I saw the singers outside on break, rolled down my window, and shot a few frames. It's my "Scene" photo in page B-2 in the Inquirer today, in the New Jersey editions. Appropriate for the unofficial last day of summer at the Shore, as I look in the rear view mirror, reviewing all the photos I shot at their this summer. With a new shore section in the paper on Saturdays all summer, and news from Atlantic City my fellow photographers and I were at the Jersey Shore on assignment a lot this summer. Here are some of my favorite photos, and links to even more:
Human and dog footprints, on the sand of Wildwood's new dog-friendly beach in June, where dogs were subjected to the usual list of restrictions that humans have learned to put up with.
An amateur sand sculpture captured the attention of beachgoers in Sea Isle City in advance of an international competition in Atlantic City in June.
family of Ecuadorians vacationing from Windsor, Ontario, visited the Atlantic City Boardwalk in July.
Yoga on the Beach in Sea Isle City.
The way to the ocean, from the Revel parking lot in Atlantic City.
The scene on the beach in Atlantic City before Blake Shelton performs July 31, 2014.
Drinks abound as Blake Shelton performs a free concert on the beach.
I learned years ago not to call the shore birds "seagulls" i captions, but after photographing on the Cape May Bird Observatory's "Birding By Boat Cruise" I learned all their names. This is a common herring gull.
Junior lifeguards in Ocean City in August.
Labor Day Weekend in Ocean City.
Ship Bottom, on Long Beach Island.
And finally, an image gallery of photos I shot on my way to and from the Shore. Using The 50th Anniversary of the Atlantic City Expressway this summer as a news peg. I would take the two-lane roads instead of the big toll highways, seeking a glimpse of an older, slower way of travel. Click here, or on a final rear view mirror view of the summer: