{"id":544,"date":"2020-09-04T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2024-03-31T07:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:53:48","slug":"photo-tour-of-downtown-st-louis-rare-pandemic-alone-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/photo-tour-of-downtown-st-louis-rare-pandemic-alone-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Tour of Downtown St Louis (Rare Pandemic Alone Time)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\"Upward<\/p>\n

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\"Masked<\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading Photo Tour of Downtown St Louis (Rare Pandemic Alone Time)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[62,43],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}