Leica Q - the image thread

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[Yoki]

Disconnection Within Connection

The smartphone is probably the most defining invention of the 21st century. It changed the way we live, work, and even how we exist in public spaces. We no longer need anyone else but the glowing screen in our palm — it pays for our meals, translates our words, connects us across oceans, and keeps us entertained while the world quietly passes by.

Just twenty years ago, waiting for a bus meant exchanging glances or small talk with strangers. Today, as in this photograph, around twelve people stand under the same shelter — yet only three are not looking down at a screen. Everyone else is somewhere else entirely: chatting with someone miles away, scrolling through headlines, chasing the next dopamine hit of a notification. We are connected to everything, except the moment we are in.

Their faces glow with the same pale light, like mirrors that reflect but never reveal. The city rushes past them, but inside this small shelter, time feels paused — a dozen humans in the same space, each lost in their own private world. Perhaps, in another twenty years, we’ll stop calling it a “smartphone” and start calling it just “life.” And maybe, one day, when the signal fades, we’ll remember how to look up and talk again.

 

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[Dazzajl]

1 hour ago, Yoki said:

We are connected to everything, except the moment we are in.

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

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59 minutes ago, Dazzajl said:

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

Haha, I’ll take that as a compliment… I think 😄

[Olaf_ZG]

5 hours ago, Dazzajl said:

That is a far too brilliant an observation for comfort!

This is what I thought as well…

[Yoki]

In the middle of the mall, life unfolds in small, parallel worlds — a couple deep in conversation, a man lost in work, a family sharing coffee, someone resting with shopping bags, another passing by with his own agenda.

We share the same circle of space, yet remain in our own orbits — connected by proximity, separated by purpose. “Busy making other plans,” as Lennon once said.

Whoever designed that circular carpet and arranged the seating understood something essential about us — our little worlds, spinning side by side.

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[Yoki]

11 hours ago, Scrapbook said:

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I can smell the fish! 

[Aram Langhans]

On 10/10/2025 at 8:42 PM, Yoki said:

 

In the middle of the mall, life unfolds in small, parallel worlds — a couple deep in conversation, a man lost in work, a family sharing coffee, someone resting with shopping bags, another passing by with his own agenda.

We share the same circle of space, yet remain in our own orbits — connected by proximity, separated by purpose. “Busy making other plans,” as Lennon once said.

Whoever designed that circular carpet and arranged the seating understood something essential about us — our little worlds, spinning side by side.

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Not sure why, but I think the person walking on the right makes this picture so much better.  Adds a dynamic element?????  Not sure, but I would not like near as much w/o that person.

[Yoki]

4 hours ago, Aram Langhans said:

Not sure why, but I think the person walking on the right makes this picture so much better.  Adds a dynamic element?????  Not sure, but I would not like near as much w/o that person.

Thanks! I felt the same when I saw the frame later — that person walking on the right somehow gives balance to all the stillness around. Maybe it’s that little hint of movement that keeps the “orbits” alive.

[Yoki]

Just another busy corner in Hong Kong — ads glowing above, people moving below. Everyone’s got their own direction, their own little mission. The city never really stops; it just changes actors — the story keeps going while the stage stays the same.

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