As I prepare to post my review, I thought I would share a couple photos. I love how my original TCL-x100 Teleconverter looks on my new x100F. I had originally purchased it with my black x100S, but I think I actually like this look better. I’ve now owned every x100 and the love affair just keeps growing with this camera.
This past July my daughter and I decided on a whim to take a trip to Tokyo for a few days. She was out of school for the summer and it was perfect for some quality father daughter time. It’s been two years since our last trip. Scary how fast time goes by. On my last trip to Tokyo I had just bought the x100T and was testing it out.
Hey everyone. Hope your all doing well today. I took this photo last year while testing my x100T that I had just upgraded to. The photo is part of a blog post I did on shop keepers in Naha. Click here to view that story. I love how he's surrounded with so much merchandise and yet everything looks in place.
Okinawa is very much like a small town, complete with a multitude of small shops, cafes and one-man farmer's markets. The people who work in them are often elderly and generally friendly. I often empathize with what must be long, mostly uneventful days spent patiently waiting for the few customers who actually buy something rather than just gawk and take photos. :)
Street photography touches my love of photography like no other genre. It's difficult to explain why. Maybe it's the historical relevance of recording society, although I've never been a big history buff. Maybe it's the rawness or reality of the moment, or maybe it's just the voyeur in me, like all humans that are fascinated with observing others and their environment.
This is the follow up to my Tokyo Street post from a few weeks ago. Street photography is rapidly growing in popularity all over the world. While it's not a new genre of photography by any means, it's possibly the most accessible. Nothing records the gesture of the streets like street photography can. Small seemingly insignificant moments around us can be fascinating when viewed after the fact.
Okinawa Photo Journal is an ongoing series of post devoted to random photos from the things I see living here in Okinawa, Japan. Feel free to like, comment and share if you enjoy the photos. Thanks for visiting. TA😊
I tend to carry one camera with me everywhere I go, besides my iPhone of course. Most days it's my Fuji x100s which is without a doubt my favorite camera ever. Some days however, I reach for my X-Pro1 just to change things up a bit, and then I remember how much I love this x-series camera too. Below are a few from the X-Pro1 with the 18-55mm f/2.8-4 lens that I took while out looking for light and color.
Mirrorlessons.com has an article on "The Best Mirrorless Cameras"based on feedback from 30 expert photography bloggers. Each photographer reveals what they think are the top three mirrorless cameras. All but seven have at least one Fuji camera in their list. Ken Rockwell's top three includes two Fuji x-series and an iPhone 6 Plus. Interesting read. Click below to read the post on Mirrorlessons.com
Recently I took an early morning walk around the neighborhood of Miyazato in Okinawa City with my Fuji X-Pro1. The quiet this time of day was therapeutic, interrupted only occasionally by the sounds of traffic from nearby highway 330, and reminded me how enjoyable it can be to shoot early in the day.
