SP is wherever you happen to be photography, shot with any lens or film and done without disturbing the pictures content.
It took awhile, but this image has grown on me. I don’t want to post crap on this site. I don’t want to post crap on flickr. Lately there’s been a lot of talk about how the sheer number of photographs being taken and shared, has diluted their worth or significance. When you consider the success rate for street photography, the problem is multiplied a hundred times!
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A mentor of mine said that he thought that some of my “smaller” moments made better pictures. I tend to look for “big” exciting moments cause I like them, but I should probably should be looking to shoot more quiet pictures as well…
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I doubt I’ll get married again, but if I did, what’s wrong with Coney Island? Must it always be the Hamptons or Tavern on the Green? Why go the $250 per plate route, when a dog a and a brew will only set you back $8 per paper plate. Yes the wedding dress will be ruined from the sand, and yes you will be surrounded by down to earth people with a few dozen tattoos, but so what? I’ve read that more people have fallen in love at Coney Island than anywhere else, so maybe this makes sense. The kids won’t complain a bit, and after everyone gets smashed, there are half a dozen subway lines ready to be your designated driver…
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One of my favorite images from “The Urban Prisoner”
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It’s not easy being small in a big world…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
I finally was able to make a decent scan of this image. So many negatives waiting in queue patiently…
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Shooting in the subways is street photography, but with nowhere to run. Sometimes as I look back on this project, I wonder what was I thinking. There were a few nasty comments and luckily only one moment when I knew I had gone too far…
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I had to shoot a wedding on the Sunday after 9/11 and needless to say the mood was somber. The couple had contemplated postponing the ceremony because of the massacre, but in the end decided not to. I guess it was the catch phrase that everyone was using…”If you don’t live your life as you want to, then they win”
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One of my favorite subway portraits…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
This is a picture of my daughter when she was born about 8 1/2 years ago. I am not quite sure that my daughter likes this photograph, but I’m posting it anyway.
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This has got to be the most regal subway entrance in New York. The New York Life company must have chipped in a few bucks on this beautiful sign…
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It’s weird looking into the eyes of the insane. What made him not only believe there’s a god, but also believe that this god loves us? Sound familiar? He also states that without a doubt, we will all perish on May 21st 2011. (Perhaps an act of god’s love for us) Unfortunately heaven is not that big, and has one of those signs you see in restaurants, stating: “Maximum Capacity 200,000,000” which he said amounts to 3% of this planets population. The remaining 97% of us will be “left behind” to face many earthquakes and forest fires which will kill us over several years, before we are sent underground to the place where the man with red skin and horns lives. I asked him several times if maybe god might have second thoughts about killing us, and each time he replied, God never lies!
May 21st 2011 is the day my dad will turn 75 and I had been hoping to celebrate…Oh well.
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A friend of mine mentioned that there was this action movie due to hit the theaters soon after 9/11 and wondered if a lot of people went out to see it. I don’t think this picture is very special to look at, but the thought process behind it is far from routine. I had just watched the tallest building in New York collapse twenty minutes earlier, and the Empire State Building had always been my favorite. In the crazy unthinkable events of that morning, I thought that another jumbo jet would be zeroing in on the ESB at any minute. Fortunately, that never transpired, but you can see how a completely frazzled mind would think that I better take one last shot of that amazing edifice…
One more thing, the movie poster reads “Veteran firefighter’s wife and child killed in bomb blast!”
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Back in the ’70s & ’80s there was a certain group of tow truck drivers that were known as chasers. This was a sick lot of crazy hot-rodders with souped up trucks that screamed around New York at over 100 mph! The first to get to a wrecked car, would claim the wreck for his body shop. Since a totaled Mercedes might be upwards of $10K to repair, the chasers would take almost any risk to get to the accident first. Red lights rarely slowed them down, and eventually it became obvious that these psychos were causing almost as many accidents as they were collecting. Finally the city figured out a way to control the chasers and I guess that’s a good thing.
They were a bunch of badass mother f*ckers though…
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I can’t help but wonder how many people went to see this movie just two days after 9/11…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
This is what my daughter said ” I was real chubby-wubby in that bathing suit. Oh yeah little me you should know that it is very rude to point at some one.”
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
Suddenly I’m at a loss for words. I wish I could explain why this photo appeals to me, but sometimes I just don’t know what to write. Saying that it’s old, doesn’t quite cut it. I guess you have to trust me that there’s something indescribable about this plain Jane fixture worth documenting, despite my inability to articulate it…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 