More good images, Mike. Compliments flow easily from my fingers/keyboard when I see such good work. So yet more kudos to you and of course your Fujis.
I too have the Fujinon 14/2.8 - a beautiful lens and great to work with, but it and verticals don't get on, so I tend to restrict when and how I use it. Wonderful for images taken in tight places (narrow rooms and medium range panoramas). A friend took a 14 to Nepal some years ago and used it extensively on a mountain trek - the small dust specs in the distance of all his otherwise lovely landscapes are the Himalayas and Everest...
A learning curve there for me. And I'm learning it.
My favourite lenses in order -
18/2.0 for everything/walkabout,
23/1.4 'cause I saw it in the shop, tested it, loved it and had to have it, plus the price was good, so,
18-55, same reason as the 23, luckily I got a good one (several friends have complained about lack of sharpness and wobbling, but not mine) and it's my second go-to for everything when I feel like leaving the 18 in my pocket, and
14/2.8, as aforementioned.
The XT2 has come with a learning curve. I'm still experimenting, trying as best I can to emulate my beloved Kodachrome and Ektachrome deep collars with the, to me, distinctly pastel Fuji color palette. So far, I'm getting there, slowly, with a little too much post processing work for my liking. So I now shoot less and compose my images more thoughtfully, which given the overloaded state of all my Western Digital hard disks, is a great improvement.
To keep my home life sane and my various bit parts attached to where they rightfully belong, I 'white lied' a little about the end cost of my (secondhand) Fuji XT2 kit. Fortunately, nothing domestic-homicidal took place, my partner having sensibly decided that as I'm now securely in what is known at home as "my dotage", me getting out and about every few days with cameras and lenses in my backpack is a far better alternative than paying for expensive medical care or having to play home nursie to a sick old git. So far, I can happily report, all is well and the going is still good, for however long it lasts.
I may be returning to Indonesia and Malaysia (the travel plan so far is Bali, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Brunei and Sarawak) in late May or early June when a cataract op I have booked for my right eye is done with and cured/recovered. After two years at home, I'm greatly looking forward to this, with a lightweight but quality Fuji kit in tow this time and not a brick-heavy if equally quality Nikon D800 kit.
I am now working on a small folio of images for posting here. A little more time and I'll be there, so.
(I will resist the impulse to write, "watch this space"...)
