I was in the process of cleaning up my extraordinarily cluttered desktop—the result of unchecked ADHD and a complete lack of an organizational plan—when I opened a screenshot I had saved:

A flood of memories hit me all at once. I'm now a little over a year into my Fuji X-T4 journey, but I can still vividly recall those weeks of research—carefully weighing camera options, questioning my first lens choice, and finally landing on the Fuji X-T4 body. Its price point gave me the room to be "all in" at around $2,000.

I viewed this purchase as an investment in my creative future.

I realized quickly I would need another lens, and the 56mm was a lens that came up repeatedly, so I snagged that. Both lenses gave me that "Fuji magic" I had heard other people describe, but the 56 specifically just "had something"