Close Up
Can you make it out? One guy is a semi-professional photographer taking a close up of a sakura bud, whilst another is taking one of his wife/mistress holding a bud close to her face.
This encpsulates the way many people in Japan take photos, the "visual Haiku" factor I referred to previously. Is this something to do with a diferrence between Eastern and Western ways of viewing the world, one focused on the close up, and one on the landcape? Has it been influenced by mobile phone technology, allowing people to snap things from a meter away and send them to their friends? Or is is because generally there is so much industrial clutter in the picture that people have become accustomed to close-ups? I'm sure its complicated mixture of all three (yeah, right).
It was quite humourous how many people went right up to a flower with their camera or mobile to ge a picture of miniaturised perfection, whilst ignoring the wider loveliness of the park!
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