The Row of Umbrellas

It was just starting to rain... but not too hard.  I saw a number of people waiting for the bus across the street aligned in a row against the Ampelmann construction wall.  (By the way, this wall has been up for two years and there has been no building appearing above the wall... not sure what's going on).  The bus folks all had their umbrellas with them and it was an interesting formation, especially juxtaposed with the people represented on the wall.  

I thought this might look even better if I were across the street myself where I could see them juxtaposted against each other.  Only problem with this scenario was that I was covered and dry across the street standing under a construction scaffold.  Out in the open, I would need to balance my own umbrella in one hand with my camera shooting one handed.  This would have been difficult with my Canon 40D, but with my new Sony NEX-7 camera, the small size makes it much more tolerable.  

What I found across the street, logically, were two rows of people leaving an opening for pedestrians up the center to pass.  Unusually orderedly, I would say.

People then passed between the two rows.  Somehow, this reminded of a dance line in a wedding, where people would dance up the aisle between the two rows of people.   They would come through strutting their stuff and showing their own individual moves.  This was only in my imagination, but I watched for a few minutes as people walked the sidewalk towards and away from me.

This one below, looks like a dance, but actually I think the guy on the left is reaching for an umbrella (which you can see in the next shot).  

He's got the umbrella out, next the jacket goes on.  

This girl seems unusually tall.   

 Eventually the bus came and they all went away.