Pokemon Go Fever Ten Days After the Outbreak

Whoa!  Yamato damashi!  Another spooky great shot! S

I really have to pause and try to understand this Pokemon (sounds Jamaican) craze. In any event, a well captured scene that 50 years from now will be quite famous. They will be trying to dig (not a good word) up as much history on both the craze and the photographer.

All the best,

This is just insane, the child looks lost. You made me laugh this Sunday morning Jack

I am VERY proud to say I have no idea what a pokemon is or what makes it go.

Strange and interesting, but as if something spooky going on with this crowd. Surreal capture!

On a November evening a several years back I stood outside the Osaka train station the first night they were turning on the Xmas lights. Instead of taking a picture of the lights as they were turned on, I took a photo of two thousand people holding their cell phones high above their heads taking a picture of the lights coming on. Unfortunately, I wasn't very knowledgeable about non-flash nighttime photography and badly botched the image. However it still is etched in my memory like this one will be. What have we come to. Well done.  

Fads will come and go but a classic street shot in flawless b/w will live forever.  Way to go! ...Mike

I only have a 'dumb' phone - no Data - just texting and can take or receive calls in an emergency.  I don't know how many people would be out on any other day in this location - but it reminds me of a TV show that I will not watch - "Night of the Living Dead'.  But these Zombies are searching for Monsters in their phones and I'm quite sure they are supposed to kill them. While they are not 'gross' looking like the folks in the aforementioned TV Show - they look a bit like Zombies to me - controlled by their phone, heads down - I'm just waiting to hear of something 'awful happening' in some of these big crowds - how empty can their lives be???? It's an excellent image Jack. The processing and clarity is so good when you think of how many people are in this image.  For some I suppose it is getting them out of the house -  perhaps ones who do live a lonely life. I wonder who is taking care of the children?