Three boys around a small café table in Genoa’s Giardini Luzzati. Ignorant of the world moving around them. Children playing, trees swaying in the cold wind blowing from the sea, chatting people sitting at surrounding tables (including us enjoying a drink). Their focus is somewhere else. Pondering their next moves.
What I liked about this moment is how calm it felt. No phones in their hands. No rush. Just a simple game that has been played for hundreds of years. It’s cool to see young people still playing chess like this, out in the open, face to face. In a time where everything is fast and digital, they chose something slow and thoughtful. Chess makes people pause. It brings them together. It creates small worlds like this one—just a board, a few pieces, and three minds sharing the same space. And for those teens, in this moment, nothing else seemed more important.
Taken with my Fuji X-T50 and the Fujinon Super EBC XC 1:2.8-4.8/16-50mm R LM WR. Image specs 1/500sec | f/4.8 | ISO 1000 | 50mm (75mm full frame equivalent).
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Have a great Monday
Marcus
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Very nice image, Marcus.
Thanks, Allan, so much appreciated!
Playing chess is a great way of concentrated communication. It’s a slow way of being. Your picture expresses this well.
Thank you
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Thanks, Klausbernd, much appreciated! Marcus
It is refreshing to see young people not staring at their phones and actually engaging with each other Marcus and thats what makes this a great image. I was watching the news the other day and saw this pub that required patrons to place their cell phones in a labeled bag and leave them with the bartender to force people to talk and interact with each other which I thought was a great idea 😊
Thanks, Joe! I love that concept of the bar that you shared, I agree that it is a great idea! Hope you’re having a great weekend!
More chess and less phones, I’m all for it!
Thanks, Alice, much appreciated!
Excellent, it really is nice to see young people enjoying slowing down like this today, Marcus. I played chess when I was in my twenties, a fun game!
Thanks, John, also I have played chess in the last millennium 😂
🤙🏻😎😂😂😂 you’re welcome Marcus.
o yes! A wonderful capture!
Thanks, Gerda, so much appreciated!