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.
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Photograph by Sindri Skúlason
on Flickr
11.
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Photograph by Frode Sandbech
12.
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Photograph by Florian Schüppel | Florian Schüppel Photography on
Facebook
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Photograph by heuristicus on
Reddit
14.
Photograph by Nick Kelly
15.
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Photograph by CAROLYN KASTER
(via The Atlantic: In
Focus)
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Photograph by PDP-11 on Reddit
17.
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Photograph via Bored Panda
18.
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Photograph by Tustel Ico
19.
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Photograph via Loco Lol
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Photograph via BuzzFeed
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Photograph by Alex Thomson Racing
22.
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Photograph by Kathy Keatley Garvey
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Photograph by STEPHANE DUCANDAS (via The Telegraph)
24.
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Photograph by Chris Thomas
25.
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Photograph via nthensome on
Reddit
26.
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Photograph by Bored Panda
27.
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Photograph via Hypervocal
28.
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Photograph via hmistry on
Reddit
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Photograph by PAM MULLINS
(via The Telegraph)
30.
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Photograph by Michael Swaine @
AbovePhotograph.com.au
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Photograph by Wilma Hurskainen
32.
Photograph by Waleed Almotar
33.
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Photograph via Bored Panda
34.
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Photograph via Smug Shots @ news.com.au
35.
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Photograph by MARTIN
BERNETTI (via rusrep.ru)
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Photograph via CollegeHumor
37.
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Photograph by Jens Birch
38.
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Photograph via postnatald on
Reddit
39.
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Photograph via Deeman9 on
Reddit
40.
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Photograph by Aleksandr Malin
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Photograph by Dustin Humphrey @ Deus Ex Machina
42.
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Photograph by Tea Kolo on Flickr
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Photograph by BRUNO GERBER
(via Huffington Post)
44.
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Photograph by Peter
Wienerroither
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Photograph by photoDiod on
Flickr
46.
Photograph by Lentilcia on
deviantART
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Photograph by Melissa Brandts
48.
Photograph by Lynn Sessions
| dreambreeze.com
49.
Photograph by Robert Haas
50.
Photograph by EthosExcelsior
on Reddit
