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"Seeing Jersey"

For me "seeing Jersey" is a way of seeing, a sense of what you value and therefore what you want to share in your art. In your photography. it's an adjective that describes and defines how I look at things, whether they're in New Jersey, the larger Delaware Valley, or the whole big world. I've lived in Indiana, in Massachusetts, in Chicago, Illinois and love them all. But being born and raised in Trenton, I'm still seeing Jersey.

As a stock photographer, I have contributed to such magazines as New Jersey Monthly, New Jersey Countryside and Destinations Magazine among others. The main focus of this commercial work is New Jersey and the Delaware Valley.

My fine art work has been shown in galleries and exhibits in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California, is part of the permanent collection of the Michener Museum, the Newark Public Library Special Collection and is held in several private collections.

John P. Foster
Trenton, NJ
email: fosterjp@aol.com

Galleries

Street Scenes : Street scenes and cityscapes

Street Scenes

Street scenes and cityscapes

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:33pm PST

Down Jersey : Down Jersey is a special place to wander and capture

Down Jersey

Down Jersey is a special place to wander and capture

Updated: Feb 15, 2010 12:06pm PST

New & Nice : Recent eye treats!

New & Nice

Recent eye treats!

Updated: Sep 24, 2009 3:08pm PST

Delaware Valley : Scenes of the Delaware Valley and down the bay too

Delaware Valley

Scenes of the Delaware Valley and down the bay too

Updated: Jul 25, 2012 5:40pm PST

Windows & Doors : I have always loved windows and doors as a photographic subject. There is so much "character" captured by them and a range of colors that draws the eye.

Windows & Doors

I have always loved windows and doors as a photographic subject. Ther ...

Updated: Sep 02, 2009 2:58pm PST

Indianapolis Street Scenes : Street scenes from an afternoon wandering downtown Indianapolis.

Indianapolis Street Scenes

Street scenes from an afternoon wandering downtown Indianapolis.

Updated: Jul 07, 2010 6:38am PST

Maritime New Jersey : Excuse our construction mess. Not surprisingly, New Jersey is a maritime state. Boat building, commercial fishing, crabbing, oystering are all a part of the Jersey coast, the Delaware Bay and the Raritan Bay. Once not all that long ago, Jersey was also a major source of fine caviar and even now the sturgeon are slowly returning to the Delaware Bay. These scenes capture some of that maritime heritage as seen along New Jersey's Coastal Heritage Trail.

Maritime New Jersey

Excuse our construction mess. Not surprisingly, New Jersey is a marit ...

Updated: Aug 28, 2009 7:55am PST

Reflections : Reflected light and reflected images seem to fit together in a very unique way.

Reflections

Reflected light and reflected images seem to fit together in a very un ...

Updated: Feb 15, 2010 12:21pm PST

Charleston, South Carolina : Charleston and vicinity in May of 2010. An elegant city that is just a treat for any photographer.

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston and vicinity in May of 2010. An elegant city that is just ...

Updated: Jul 09, 2010 4:10pm PST

Black & White World : A sample of my Black & White photography, using a variety of films and cameras. Every so often, I feel this need to leave the color behind and focus upon form and light, as BW film demands. That sounds so professional! In truth, I started out as a kid in the 1950s using BW roll film on a verrrry old Brownie Box camera with pinholes for lens. Color film was for folks who had real cameras. I still have that camera saved on a shelf. It was my mother's and one of my aunts or uncles before her, I'm sure.

Black & White World

A sample of my Black & White photography, using a variety of films and ...

Updated: Jun 08, 2012 6:38am PST

Montreal Street Scenes : There are places that fit so nicely into your "photo" memory that they stay there. Places like Charleston, South Carolina. Boston and Chicago. Montreal is one of those places. Montreal, Quebec was my first "digital" vacation. A Nikon Coolpix was the camera I carried around on this vacation which was spent on foot, on subway and on bus. But mostly on foot. Our hotel was in the west of downtown, right by the Mother House of the Gray Nuns, and we wandered from there.

Montreal Street Scenes

There are places that fit so nicely into your "photo" memory that they ...

Updated: Jul 29, 2010 7:42am PST

Savannah in Black & White : Savannah is a colorful city, so it was hard to stick with my "new" 40 year old Olympus 35 RC and BW film, but worth it in the long run. The city has "good bones," as one would say. And maybe it does not require color on those "bones" to show its depth and beauty.

Savannah in Black & White

Savannah is a colorful city, so it was hard to stick with my "new" 40 ...

Updated: Aug 16, 2010 12:03pm PST

Walt Disney World in Black & White : Visiting Disney with an Olympus 35 RC vintage camera was fun.

Walt Disney World in Black & White

Visiting Disney with an Olympus 35 RC vintage camera was fun.

Updated: Dec 01, 2010 11:34am PST

Jersey on the Bay Side : Notes from my first visit to the towns and marshes of the Bay Side since superstorm Sandy. The popular Jersey Shore is the ocean side of southern New Jersey. This is the "other side", the Bay Side. The western border is the Delaware Bay and it is a very different maritime scene of marshes and commercial crabbing/oystering and small communities out on the marsh.

Jersey on the Bay Side

Notes from my first visit to the towns and marshes of the Bay Side sin ...

Updated: May 16, 2013 9:12am PST

Heading North in Jersey : A tickle of thought made me pull an old friend out of the closet, my YashicaMat 124G TLR, and head north. Destination Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area at the northwestern border of New Jersey where the Appalachian Trail passes through. The route up, SR 519, traveled by Washington's troops during the Revolution. And once there, Old Mine Road, a road build by the Dutch in the 17th century and still in use, complete with potholes and washouts! The film, Kodak 400TX, great film for a great old camera.

Heading North in Jersey

A tickle of thought made me pull an old friend out of the closet, my Y ...

Updated: May 19, 2013 12:35pm PST