MICHAEL WEINBERG PHOTOGRAPHY
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Photo of old fashioned, coin operated gum ball retail machine in a local clothing store. It is the colors which not only attract children and adults to the machine, but creates the photo opportunity as well. To this photographer's lens, there is color in all that is seen and pictured. It is part of Michael Weinberg's Photojournalistic Style of photography to tap into the driving force of finding colorful photo opportunities.
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About Gum Ball Machines:
The History of the vending machine
Reprinted from www.gumballs.com
Vending (or "automatic retailing" as it is increasingly known) has a long history. The Greek mathematician Hero seems to have got the ball rolling in 215BC, when he invented a machine to vend holy water in Egyptian temples. The first commercial coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England, in the early 1880s. They dispensed post cards. Richard Carlisle, an English publisher and bookshop owner, invented a vending machine for selling books, around the same time. In 1888, the Thomas Adams Gum Company introduced the very first vending machines to the United States. The machines were installed on the elevated subway platforms in New York City and sold Tutti-Fruiti gum. In 1897, the Pulver Manufacturing Company added animated figures to its' gum machines as an added attraction. The round candy coated gumball and gumball (vending) machines were introduced in 1907. Vending machines soon offered everything including; cigars, postcards, stamps, etc. In Philadelphia, a completely coin-operated restaurant called Horn & Hardart was opened in 1902 and stayed opened until 1962. In the early 1920's, the first automatic vending machines started dispensing sodas into cups. In 1926, an American inventor named William Rowe invented a cigarette-vending machine.
History of Chewing Gum and Bubble Gum Gumballs
By the early 20th century, Americans could not get enough of the confection called chewing gum invented by Thomas Adams.
Timeline:
• The ancient Greeks chewed mastiche - a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree. • The ancient Mayans chewed chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree.
• North American Indians chewed the sap from spruce trees and passed the habit along to the settlers. • Early American settlers made a chewing gum from spruce sap and beeswax.
• In 1848, John B. Curtis made and sold the first commercial chewing gum called the State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. • In 1850, Curtis started selling flavored paraffin gums becoming more popular than spruce gums. • On December 28 1869, William Finley Semple became the first person to patent a chewing gum - U.S patent #98,304. • In 1869, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna introduced Thomas Adams to chicle. • In 1871, Thomas Adams patented a machine for the manufacture of gum. • In 1880, John Colgan invented a way to make chewing gum taste better for a longer period of time while being chewed. • By 1888, an Adams' chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first chew to be sold in a vending machine. The machines were located in a New York City subway station. • In 1899, Dentyne gum was created by New York druggist Franklin V. Canning. • In 1906, Frank Fleer invented the first bubble gum called Blibber-Blubber gum. However, the bubble blowing chew was never sold. • In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum.
• In 1928, an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer invented the successful pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum. The very first bubble gum was invented by Frank Henry Fleer in 1906. He called it Blibber-Blubber. Fleer's recipe was later perfected by Walter Diemer, who called his product Double Bubble.
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PA professional photographer/graphic artist since 1989, Michael Weinberg has produced a wide variety of materials, both artistic and technical, for print and web publications, for business, industries and non-profit organizations. Over the years and decades, he has worked hard to sharpen and strengthen my photographic craft and skills, I have formulated several objectives which help to guide me in providing the high quality photography services essential to my clients.
REVEALING HIDDEN BEAUTY
As a PA photographer and artist, his primary goal is to reveal the hidden beauty and special characteristics in all that is captured with the camera’s lens; to find a way to stop time in its tracks, for one incredibly short moment; to provide the viewer a unique perspecitive of nature which surrounds and affects us; to bring out all that is interesting, expressive, colorful, entertaining and beautiful in the complex world around us.
CLEAR, CLEAN, COLORFUL
We have great respect for photographers who specialize in creating awe inspiring special effects, but my technical emphasis is in producing clear, clean and colorful images; to use the advanced technology at my disposal to produce the finest, best composed and best exposed photographs possible; crisply focused features with warm, realistic hues, tones and saturations. In short, Michael Weinberg wants to capture all that is photographed at the best angle and in the best light; he always wants to have, of everything he captures, the best side showing.
WEDDING PHOTOS TO CHERISH FOR A LIFETIME
The memories that are rekindled from high quality wedding photographs are a special gift to be sweetly savored over the years. As we grow older and our perspectives of past events change, a good photograph, one that clearly conveys the precious moods and feelings, the joys and happiness of a moment, is a treasure to be cherished for a lifetime. The value is priceless. Your wedding is indeed your special day in time. Your photographer has the awesome responsibility of placing those highly personal events of that day in the finest and clearest photographic light imaginable; creatively capturing all the beauty, love and emotions of your wedding. to have and to hold, forever.