I took the day off from my 8-5 today. The kiddo, still having (virtual) school today, stayed home with my spouse while I took a rare non-grocery-store excursion this morning. I took my digital camera - an Olympus Pen F - and paid for an hour of parking downtown. If kiddo is with me, it is incredibly hard to photograph the way I like to - carefully composing the shot, adjusting the color balance and exposure, patiently waiting for all aspects of the frame to line up *just so* - so I made full use of my hour. I can't remember the last time I just went out with the express purpose of enjoying photography.

Here are the results of my outing. The pictures range from architectural and pattern studies to glimpses of people enjoying quiet reprieves of normalcy in a very abnormal time. I stuck to black and white, using the color-adjustable monochrome film simulation setting on the Pen F.