Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
X100 f4 ISO640 1/18 - RAW with PP in Topaz
I travelled across vast distances, wading through dense flora and fauna to reach this ancient Buddha...
...at my local garden center
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Buddha's Tears
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X100 f4 ISO640 1/18 - RAW with PP in Topaz
I travelled across vast distances, wading through dense flora and fauna to reach this ancient Buddha...
...at my local garden center
Brian Moore
Moderator
I was going to say "via Southwest Airlines!"
Nice shot though, Chirs!
Nice shot though, Chirs!
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Well, I did take the plane to get to the garden center, so that counts!
Thomas brookes
RPF Chief iPhone app Reviewer
I honestly think there is no better review or write up about the x100 that will justify it as well as that/these images Chris. Yes I wanted one now I need one! 
Brodie Jackson
Well-Known Member
Really love this,chris
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Wow. Amazing shot. And all from an X100. I'd be amazed if I ever got anything of that quality out of mine. Gulp.
Pete Askew
Admin
Staggeringly good Chris. What more can I say? So was your flight to the garden centre so you could buy some plants to offset the carbon emission generated getting there?! 
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Thanks chaps and chapesses - just goes to show that you should always take a camera with you.
Seeing as we were 'on a mission' to the garden center for 'her indoors', I was tempted to leave the X100 at home.
But I decided to take it, and it provided an excellent distraction for me while she looked at the plants!
I've seen the huge Buddha fountain a hundred times before, and even thought about taking a photo when it froze up last winter - but I'd never really looked at it, if you know what I mean.
Nearly didn't this time - I was all wrapped up in shooting a couple of scarecrows they had on site, and then as we walked out, we went past the Buddah, and as I had the camera on, in my hand, I figured I'd grab a few shots.
Kept swmbo waiting by the car it did!
Can pretty much guarantee I wouldn't ever have had the 5D2 with me at the garden center - so this shot only happened for me, because of the X100
Which is the whole point, and the reason I gave myself for buying one...
At least that the story I'm telling swmbo - and I'm sticking to it!
Seeing as we were 'on a mission' to the garden center for 'her indoors', I was tempted to leave the X100 at home.
But I decided to take it, and it provided an excellent distraction for me while she looked at the plants!
I've seen the huge Buddha fountain a hundred times before, and even thought about taking a photo when it froze up last winter - but I'd never really looked at it, if you know what I mean.
Nearly didn't this time - I was all wrapped up in shooting a couple of scarecrows they had on site, and then as we walked out, we went past the Buddah, and as I had the camera on, in my hand, I figured I'd grab a few shots.
Kept swmbo waiting by the car it did!
Can pretty much guarantee I wouldn't ever have had the 5D2 with me at the garden center - so this shot only happened for me, because of the X100
Which is the whole point, and the reason I gave myself for buying one...
At least that the story I'm telling swmbo - and I'm sticking to it!
Brian Moore
Moderator
There is a very nice little lesson in there for all of us, Chris. Usually I carry at least two cameras back and forth to work each day. Then while running errands I generally put my XA in my pocket, or my Vivitar PN2011. So I'm pretty much always kinda ready, if you know what I mean. However, the more important part of the little lesson here is that whether you have your camera with you or not, it still pays to see things--not just look at them, but to try to see the photographic opportunities in them. Thanks!
