Bubble Tea and the Sea

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DSCF3426FUJIFILM X-T1 (14mm, f/8, 1/750 sec, ISO200)

Blue skies, blue ocean and bubble tea. Live hardly comes better than this.

After Palm Springs we went straight to Oceanside. A small and beautiful place in between Los Angeles and San Diego. Another day with a cloudless sky. I can’t remember that we ever had that many cloudless skies during a whole summer in Austria.

DSCF3431FUJIFILM X-T1 (14mm, f/8, 1/400 sec, ISO200)
 DSCF4147FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (107.3mm, f/10, 1/350 sec, ISO200)
 DSCF4150FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (67.1mm, f/4.8, 1/1700 sec, ISO200)

After we got our bubble teas the first thing was to go to the ocean. What else can you do in a place called Oceanside. It was very windy and in order to avoid to get dust on the sensors I shot with two cameras. The X-T1 and the X-Pro 1. The kit lens on one and the tele zoom on the other camera.

This is a very comfortable solution too especially if the cameras and lenses are super light. You hardly feel them on you shoulder. But it was hard to switch in between the X-T1 and the Pro 1 because of the small, low resolution viewfinder of the Fuji X-Pro 1. Soon after the trip I sold it. It was just not possible for me to step back from the beautiful viewfinder of the Fuji X-T1. Now I consider to get the Fuji X-Pro 2 but I need to check if I can live with its smaller EVF. I don’t worry about its fixed screen but a nice EVF is crucial. I always preferred the design of the X-Pro 1 to the X-T1.

DSCF4153FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (135.7mm, f/10, 1/800 sec, ISO200)
 DSCF4157FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (84.8mm, f/10, 1/500 sec, ISO200)

This trip was my third one to the USA, the third one to California (beside the other states I visited) but the first one to the beaches of Southern California. I love the sea but I think everybody does. I seldom take a swim though and I think the reason is simple all those trips to Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Canada where swimming in the ocean is only an option for the truly brave.

When I was a boy I jumped into ice cold lakes and rivers but I need to admit that I’m not that tough anymore. Last time in Las Vegas it took me a minute or two to enter the very warm pool of the Caesars Palace. The outside temperature was around 40 degrees Celsius and the pool was close to 30. Today I’m more of a beachcomber but I truly love the ocean.

DSCF4164FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (120.6mm, f/9, 1/180 sec, ISO200)