This afternoon, I walked home through the San Diego neighborhood of Hillcrest, where waits one of the many artifacts of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2)/COVID-19 lockdowns. Schwinn stationary bikes are available for those locals looking to exercise outdoors, which is a periodic requirement depending on which way the stay-at-home order blows; sometimes indoor gyms are allowed to open, oftentimes not.
I have seen souls pedaling together during tandem instruction. But nobody rode the road to nowhere when I happened to pass by. Unfortunately, I carried along Leica Q2 Monochrom, which was supposed to effuse magnificent ambience in my nibble hands. But the scene was overly cluttered; in black and white the compositions are too busy, with little comfortable place for the eyes to naturally go.
I share the Featured Image and companion not as an exposition of good photography but the bad—and reminder to myself that the man makes the camera, not the other way around (woman, too, of course, but being male myself gender refers to me). Vitals, aperture set for both: f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/500 sec, 28mm; 3:15 p.m. PST. The other: f/8, ISO 200, 1/250 sec, 28mm; 3:17 p.m. I also made another at f/2.8 but decided the shallower depth of field amplified distractions.