The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever

The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever

 

I assume, you as I do, have a bucket list of photographs that when I am photographing, I am alert to the list so I am prepared when one of the pictures apears before me to grab the image. I have often written a favorite quote of mine by Louis Pasteur---

“Chance favors only the prepared mind”. It is amazing how easy to capture that fleeting baby’s grin in the moments of a shy young daughter’s portrait session. And how often our client exclaims excitedly, “how did you get that smile? I only saw her frowns. You are so talented.”

For 20 years, I photographed Arnold Palmer, and may times once or twice a week. I had to try to give him a different look, different expressions, and favorably display that charismatic personality. All during times of a sport that thrives on all a golfer’s motions and movements being duplicated exactly over and over again. A different look while he is trying to do exactly the same thing again and again.

One idea on my list is to grab a moment in time that is perfectly timed. The only importance of the image is that it is a perfect place, a perfect time and a perfect angle.

  By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met:

1. Perfect Place
2. Perfect Time
3. Perfect Angle

Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photographs below. There are countless galleries of these images floating around. I tried my best to compile the most representative of this concept. If you’re craving more, the following links are a good start: r/PerfectTiming on Reddit; Bored Panda (here, here and here); BuzzFeed (here and here)

Enjoy!

1.

Photograph by REUTERS/Luke MacGrego (via Reuters Olympics on Facebook)

2.

Photograph by JAY FINE (via The Big Picture)

3.

Photograph by MARCO QUERAL (via Daily Mail)

4.

Photograph via Former_Manc on Reddit

5.

Photograph by Jörn Kessels | Foto Kessels on Facebook

6.

Photograph by ADAM PRETTY (via Photo Blog on NBC News

7.

Photograph by Liammm on Reddit

8.

Photograph by Ensign John Gay/U.S. Navy

9.

Photograph via RedditorJoker on Reddit

10.

 

Photograph by Sindri Skúlason on Flickr

11.

 

Photograph by Frode Sandbech

12.

 

Photograph by Florian Schüppel | Florian Schüppel Photography on Facebook

13.

 

Photograph by heuristicus on Reddit

14.

 

Photograph by Nick Kelly

15.

 

Photograph by CAROLYN KASTER (via The Atlantic: In Focus)

16.

 

Photograph by PDP-11 on Reddit

17.

 

Photograph via Bored Panda

18.

 

Photograph by Tustel Ico

19.

 

Photograph via Loco Lol

20.

 

Photograph via BuzzFeed

21.

 

Photograph by Alex Thomson Racing

22.

 

Photograph by Kathy Keatley Garvey

23.

 

Photograph by STEPHANE DUCANDAS (via The Telegraph)

24.

 

Photograph by Chris Thomas

25.

 

Photograph via nthensome on Reddit

26.

 

Photograph by Bored Panda

27.

 

Photograph via Hypervocal

28.

 

Photograph via hmistry on Reddit

29.

 

Photograph by PAM MULLINS (via The Telegraph)

30.

 

Photograph by Michael Swaine @ AbovePhotograph.com.au

31.

 

Photograph by Wilma Hurskainen

32.

Photograph by Waleed Almotar

33.

 

Photograph via Bored Panda

34.

 

Photograph via Smug Shots @ news.com.au

35.

 

Photograph by MARTIN BERNETTI (via rusrep.ru)

36.

 

Photograph via CollegeHumor

37.

 

Photograph by Jens Birch

38.

 

Photograph via postnatald on Reddit

39.

 

Photograph via Deeman9 on Reddit

40.

 

Photograph by Aleksandr Malin

41.

 

Photograph by Dustin Humphrey @ Deus Ex Machina

42.

 

Photograph by Tea Kolo on Flickr

43.

 

Photograph by BRUNO GERBER (via Huffington Post)

44.

 

Photograph by Peter Wienerroither

45.

 

Photograph by photoDiod on Flickr

46.

 

Photograph by Lentilcia on deviantART

47.

 

Photograph by Melissa Brandts

48.

 

Photograph by Lynn Sessions | dreambreeze.com

49.

 

Photograph by Robert Haas

50.

 

Photograph by EthosExcelsior on Reddit