Ocean Grove resident and photographer Chris Spiegel is no stranger to Friday Foto. In fact, this is his third go-around in as many months. One of Spiegel’s favorite subjects to shoot is lightning. His first Friday Foto featured a shot of The Great Auditorium with lightning striking in the background. This week, he shows Sun […]

Helmetta, N.J. resident Robin Dell Maccaro loves the greater Asbury area so much that she just signed a lease for an apartment in Ocean Grove. Which means more frequent photo ops for this budding photographer. During a recent visit to the fishing pier in Ocean Grove, Maccaro caught this scene of a surfer emerging from […]

Convention Hall on the north end of Asbury Park’s boardwalk is arguably the city’s most recognizable landmark. Designed by famed American architects Warren and Wetmore, who also designed New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, the structure was completed in 1930 and has seen its fair share of moment’s in the spotlight, most notably serving as […]

The neon “Bar” sign hanging outside The Press Room at 610 Bangs Avenue has become a beacon of sorts for this street’s recent creative renaissance. The New York Times says in today’s travel section, “The last 18 months have been particularly transformative for one formerly forlorn area. Enlivened by a group of entrepreneurs mostly in […]

Weekly bonfires on the Asbury Park beach are one major distinction between the city and other shore towns. Caroline Novack, a north Jerseyan who considers Asbury her second home, caught this scene on a recent spring evening. “I just bought a vacation place in AP at the end of April,” says Novak. “I grew up […]

A few weeks ago Friday Foto featured the photography of Toms River resident Ray Yeager. Ray is back this week with his picture-perfect interpretation of the Ocean Grove fishing pier. Of this photo taken in April, Yeager tells the Asbury Park Sun, “(it was) a beautiful early evening at moonrise on my way home from […]

Ocean Grove is a photographer’s playground considering the overabundance of historic, Victorian era architecture on seemingly every corner. Helmetta, NJ resident Robin Dell Maccaro caught that essence perfectly with this shot of a row of gingerbread style homes. “The picture of the roofline was taken in Ocean Grove in February 2012 on a very blustery, […]

This week’s Friday Foto comes from the Ocean Grove photographer who started it all, Chris Spiegel, our first Friday Foto feature whose shot of The Great Auditorium with lightning striking in the background was an instant hit with Asbury Park Sun readers. This recent shot taken by Spiegel is of the Casino building at the […]

Any image of the historic Howard Johnson’s building on the Asbury Park boardwalk, just south of Convention Hall, can stimulate memories of the city’s great past and present. Arguably one of Asbury’s most significant architectural structures, the site now functions as McLoone’s Supper Club and Asbury Grille restaurant. Toms River resident Ray Yeager captured the […]

As Louis Armstrong once crooned, a kiss is just a kiss. In the case of this couple, captured by Asbury Park resident LoriAnn Bracco with lips locked just outside the entrance of the Casino building on the south end of the boardwalk, it may be more than just a kiss. “I’m new to the hobby […]