The little path by the river next to my place is not heavily traveled, although foot traffic explodes in this whole area during cherry-blossom season, and so these days a fair number of people walk by. In particular, it doesn't hurt that some the cherry trees lining the river are already half in bloom — the ones lining the canal will be much nicer, but they haven't yet come in. (Here's an old photo of the canal lined with cherry trees, where the canal runs in front of our place.)
Because I'm always behind the camera, I don't see how silly I look always running around taking pictures, so I thought I'd take some pictures of other people doing that. I spent a few minutes at my dining-room window taking pictures of people taking pictures. These were all taken within a 5-minute period....
This is what they were all photographing....
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — 1/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 400 — full exif
Bloom perhaps 50% full...
mr. Jeffrey,
nice photos! They create a good japan feel :”)