These days I find myself still shooting half in color and half in black and white. I still can't bring myself to just commit to one because I still feel that there is a need for each but what is strange for me is the fact that I am more inclined to lean towards black and white for landscapes. For the time being I will stick to this, my only concern is that they don't all start to look the same but I guess that is the challenge that we face when trying to be creative.

JinZi was the most difficult hike that I have done to date. I was told before hand that it should be so I was debating if I should take the X-T1 with the 16-55 lens or just stick with my trusted X100s. In the end I decided to go with the X100s and I am glad that I did. It is so light and convenient that I could just hang it around my neck and forget about when I wasn't using it. Also because there were no paths a lot of the time and the gradient was very steep, I found myself using my hands a lot to pull myself up or to climb. The result was that the X100s was bouncing around a lot on my chest. I couldn't imagine being able to do this with the heavy and cumbersome 16-55 lens hanging around my neck, I think I would be too worried about smashing it against the rocks while jumping from one to the other. I know some of you are saying well why not just put it in your bag when not using it? The problem is that I don't have a rucksack that can offer sufficient padding for my cameras and still be able to hold all my camping gear. Also because this was a hiking/ camping trip there wasn't really much time to stop every 10 min, take off my rucksack to get out the camera and, shoot and then put it back. A lot of the shots were done on the move so as to not hold up the group.

For now I still feel the X100s is the prefect travel camera, I just wish it had wifi like the newer X100T so that I could connect the Instax printer and give out some prints to all the locals I photograph.