35 Perfectly Timed Photos That Couldn’t Happen Again If You Tried
Timing is everything, and these photos prove it. Just a second earlier or later and they’d be totally ordinary, but because the camera clicked at the perfect time, they turned into something hilarious, strange, or completely unforgettable.
It’s the kind of luck you can’t plan, and that’s what makes these shots so much fun to look at.
1. “This penguin I photographed at the zoo yesterday”
2. “This bird scaring my mom”
3. “The instant the chick bit down on this daschunds tongue”
4. “Throwback to our holiday in Tunisia. Kodak wind up camera 2005. Poor woman”
“We had no idea this happened until we got home and had everything developed.
I was too busy geeking out at the Star Wars set!”
5. “My wife took this photo and captured a butterfly and bumble bee mid flight”
6. “Photobombed by fruit”
7. “Snapped a pic of this ladybug right as it decided to take flight”
8. “Waiter”
9. “I tried to get a photo of my dog in a hat, he had other plans”
10. “My goat with impeccable timing.”
11. “Skipping turns painful”
12. “The moment lunch was stolen.”
“The one on the left was quite happily eating away, when the one on the right swooped in from nowhere and pinched it mid flight just as I took the shot.”
13. “Karate kitty”
14. “Our friends with our dog on the beach…”
15. “Two unlikely friends posing for a photo (I didn’t see him at first too)”
16. “In the firing line”
17. “Dog gone it”
“One of my dogs was stalking me through the window when I tried to take her pic, my other dog walked by with her curly tail up.”
18. “My little sis dropped her ice cream”
19. “The exact moment the guy behind me spilled his tequila in my eye”
20. “Taking a picture of my kid doing a ‘trick’ and the dog felt left out.”
21. “Tried to capture this surfer hanging 10, seagull said nope”
“Was out taking shots of the surfers and this seagull flew right into frame over the subject as he was nose riding.”
22. “Perfectly timed flash splits my family photo”
23. “This goose flying at our car”
24. “A transformer exploded the exact moment I took a photo of a street sign”
25. “Winged Surfer”
26. “A butterfly atop Mt Rainier”
27. “I shot this one six years ago in La Push, Washington”
28. “Dramatic bird selfie”
29. “Tried to get a selfie with Beetle.”
30. “Taking a picture of the leak in my work truck’s roof to show where it is, and I caught the drip perfectly.”
31. “Bro had no idea what was coming for him”
32. “Took this photo at a parade of the instant this car’s antifreeze/coolant blew up”
“This was taken 5 years ago, and I always thought it was a cool shot.”
33. “Got photobombed by a goose while taking a picture of a swan!”
34. “Rainbow lightning bolt.”
“Upper left side of the rainbow to see the bolt of lightning.”
35. “Heron and snake both simultaneously catching a fish”
