FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (35mm, f/4, 1/50 sec, ISO640)

Saturday the 17th of March, Airport of Jakarta, Indonesia about 7pm. I’m sitting at the gate waiting for boarding and think about the last two weeks. I travel a lot for business but I never got that far. This business trip brought me to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and to Indonesia. What a journey!

This was my first time in Asia and I’m still overwhelmed. It is the same with my computer. It took my MacBookPro more than 12 hours to render the 1:1 views in Lightroom. These images are out of camera JPEGs with Fuji’s Velvia setting. Auto-WB! I’m not a JPEG shooter but if you prefer JPEG you have to shoot a Fuji X. There is nothing like that available from competition.

A lipstick sunset after heavy rain ( the only rain within 2 weeks ). The perfect ending of a fantastic trip. When I left Austria there was still snow. When I landed it was the same. It felt like early February to August and back again.

I’m really happy to finally go back to my wife, my family and friends and to the place where I belong but on the other hand it is also hard to leave. That’s why I got the Going Home theme from Local Hero (a wonderful film from 1983) in my mind. I feel the same way.

FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (14mm, f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO640)
FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (35mm, f/1.4, 1/125 sec, ISO200)