Amy Toensing

Commercial Lifestyle

   
  
Kids roam freely and safely in Ocean Grove, a small beach town in the northern part of the Jersey Shore. This town was settled as a Methodist retreat at the turn of the century and today remains a popular religious sanctuary as well as a summer vacation destination.
     
  
An aerial view of a typical beach housing development on the Jersey Shore where loyal and enthusiastic shore goers spend their entire two-week vacations every year.
   
A woman takes in the sun outside her beach rental home on Long Beach Island.
   
Luring in a crowd, performer Danielle De Meux blows a ball of fire outside the Bros. Grim sideshow tent on the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
     
  
Little girls' dresses hang on a laundry line on a porch in Utuado.
   
Women watch a polo match at a ranch outside of San Juan polo. Most Puerto Ricans live a far less lavish lifestyle; per capita income is less than $9,000.
   
A view of Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, where visitors come to soak in the sun, ride the Ferris wheel, eat saltwater taffy and stroll the boardwalk on a hot summer night.
     
  
James Foster works as barker and ticket collector for the Bros. Grim Circus Sideshow July 26, 2003 on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
   
Sisters keep cool in a yard pool in their front yard outside San Juan.
   
Boys feed crackers to seagulls hovering in an off shore breeze on Long Beach Island.
     
  
Evening falls on beach homes in Seaside Park.
   
  
     
  
   
  
Morning fog lifts off the meadow behind the Josiah Starling house, a witness to island dawns since 1784.
     
  
Tralice Bracy plays with her nephew on the rocky coastline Maine July 31, 2000 on Monhegan Island.
   
  
     
  
   
Mother and daughter embrace in the surf outside San Juan. The beaches are popular weekend destinations for Puerto Rican families.
   
A young girl gets help from her father to bundle a bouquet of flowers growing on the lawns of Parc de Bagatelle, located in Paris's largest parks, the Bois de Boulogne.
     
  
Visitors stroll through the 17th-century Jardin de Tuileries leading to the Musée de Louvre in the center of Paris.
   
Couples talk while taking in the view from the Temple de Sibylle in the center of Parc des Buttes-Chaumont.
   
An island gardener works on the flowerbeds around the Island Inn May 17, 2000 on Monhegan Island, Maine.