{"id":1740,"date":"2011-04-10T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T05:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-10\/1740"},"modified":"2011-04-10T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T05:57:27","slug":"lunch-under-the-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-04-10\/1740","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Under the Cherry Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f\/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/10, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\n(scroll side-to-side)<\/span>\nLunch Under the Cherry Blossoms<\/span>\nShirakawa River, Kyoto Japan<\/center>\n\n

Traffic on the way home from Mass became jammed packed once we got near the Okazaki area (of Kyoto), by the throngs coming\nto enjoy the cherry blossoms<\/a>. I expected<\/span> it to be crowded,\nbut was surprised by the number of people milling around the Shirakawa river, with many sitting for lunch. It was nice<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n

But not everyone enjoyed the\nCherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre<\/i><\/a> of the area...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 220 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nUltra-Packed Bus<\/span>\nsitting in ultra-packed traffic\n<\/div>\n\n

It's a common problem<\/a> each season.<\/p>\n\n

Anthony took the opportunity to snap some shots as well...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/13, ISO 6400 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

... and as a bonus garnered a wave from some ladies...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 290 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 250 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traffic on the way home from Mass became jammed packed once we got near the Okazaki area (of Kyoto), by the throngs coming to enjoy the cherry blossoms. I expected it to be crowded, but was surprised by the number of people milling around the Shirakawa river, with many sitting for lunch. It was nice.<\/p>

But not everyone enjoyed the Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre of the area...<\/p>

It's a common problem each season.<\/p>

Anthony took the opportunity to snap some shots as well...<\/p>

... and as a bonus garnered a wave from some ladies...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}