Matt Weber (Street photography), Subway, Uncategorized

“The Future”

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Ten years ago I said that there would eventually be a tiny lens in someone’s baseball cap and a hard drive the size of a pack of cigarettes which would allow someone to shoot a video of their whole day at high-res. So I wrong about the delivery system as it turned out to be a pair of shades. It’s still a bit disappointing to see technology come out with something that can literally replace a skill which you’ve worked hard at for almost thirty years. Once upon a time photo re-touchers used airbrushes and were extremely talented and well paid for the service. Along came Photoshop and they all were unemployed. I rarely get paid to shoot pictures, but if someone has a file with over 70,000 pictures in it at the end of the day, can he fail to capture a few decisive moments along the way?

This guy wasn’t happy with me taking his picture but I think he knew that he was the future, and I was just the past…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), America, Old New York

1964 Worlds’ Fair Lights

worlds=fair-1964-matt-weberI was lucky enough to go to the world’s fair in 1964-65 several times. I made my mom and uncle take me on the water flume as many times as I could. The ride ended up in Coney Island’s Astroland, and my daughter convinced me to ride it over forty years later. Driving through the Poconos, I noticed these strange and somewhat futuristic lights all over an abandoned resort. It turns out that they are the same lamps which lit the world’s fair back in Queens!

 

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