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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
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#152I had a similar thing happen. While browsing Google Maps I found what looked like a poorly cropped version of one of my photos: My photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/40423570@N07/35437050686/ Their photo: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+Armistead+Park/@39.20... However, upon inspection I realized there were differences. It kind of blew my mind that someone had taken a picture of the same sunrise at the same…
>It kind of blew my mind that someone had taken a picture of the same sunrise at the same time, from almost the same spot.
Depends on the spot. I'm sure that, on any given morning, there are probably shots taken in a place like Zabriskie Point that are effectively indistinguishable. (Of course, once there are moving objects in the frame, photos that look identical become much less likely.)
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#153Not nearly as improbable, but one time I was reading the New York Times and happened upon the top picture in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/insider/freezing-temperat... Not only did I find that I was (barely) in the picture, but I had a picture of the photographer either before or after he took that picture (not at the same time, obviously, since I was turned the other way at the time of his picture…
Improbable or not, that's great! Two people taking the same photo with phones seems likely these days, but accidentally discovering a picture of yourself taking a picture of the photographer, published in the NYT, that's an awesome coincidence. I love how completely and dramatically different those two photos of the same place and time are. The reporter was telling a story of somewhere remote and hard to get to and b…
It's quite possible I was trying to take a picture of the plane taking off, so that might make that aspect less of a coincidence.
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#154I had the same thing happen with one of my photos of lightning in London. I actually thought my shot had been ripped off at first glance, then realised it was from a different angle. Mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beechlights/2739042419/in/phot... Alternative, from the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2515...
The bolt of lightning is clearly identical, but I'm having a difficult time correlating buildings between the two shots. My guess is they were taken a mile or two apart.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was working on a long-duration balloon payload (ANITA-IV), so I was in a hangar much of the time. Since it was summer, it wasn't that cold, but the constant daylight is disorienting. The isolation from the rest of the world is the hardest part, even though at McMurdo, unlike pole, there is (slow) internet all day long. McMurdo is an interesting place with a lot of fascinating people and the scenery is very beautifu…
Always been a dream of mine, sadly I don't think as a lowly French IT person that there is a way for me to have that experience. Thanks for sharing
Depends on what age you are, if you are less than 30 it's not very difficult to get to Dumont d'Urville.
I went to Kerguelen island myself as a sysadmin (14 months, a winterover). I had the choice between Kerguelen, Crozet, New Amsterdam and Dumont d'Urville, I don't regret my choice at all even if Kerguelen lacks the special distinction of being on Antarctica.
The Polar Institute, IPEV, recruits about 10 or so IT-related personnel each year (though only two recruitments are for pure sysadmin types - Kerguelen and Dumont d'Urville) under a civilian service contract. It's worth trying it if you're less than 30.
Otherwise it's going to be difficult, and even more so for Concordia I'm afraid.
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#156Cool idea for a service like Flickr (or at least Flickr in its prime, which is not now) to exploit -- given EXIF data and a database of photos, one could find all the photos taken in the same location at the exact time. While almost no cameras embed GPS information, I bet there are ways to infer the location in many cases.
This was in fact the business of the infamous Color startup[0]. For those not familiar, they raised a ridiculous amount of money, then shut down and returned most of it to the investors. My favorite memory of Color was when they became a landmark when they bought a massive office in downtown Palo Alto, got hit with zoning restrictions which forced them to use the ground floor for retail or leave it empty (they left i…
I had a similar project prior to Color coming out with it. No one seems to care about proximity photos for events.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's made more remarkable IMO that they were two _professional_ photographers though, and that it's not just two snaps that happen to have the same timestamp, they both chose that moment to feature from the burst they probably took around that moment, the hundreds of other moments in proximity, and the thousands (I suppose? I'm no photographer) they each took throughout the day.
That fact makes it possible, but as he pointed out, they were taking photos at different rates of burst mode, and even then they happened to snap at the same millisecond. Usually each picture in burst mode of moving water is completely different. I think in that gas it makes sense that they would choose the same subject and the same photo since it was probably the biggest splash from that wave. As if they were choosi…
I question the exact same millisecond part. There’s zero proof of that (and actually counter proof examining the photos). Same second, sure. Same millisecond, I think someone is reaching a bit much to make a story.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I looked at the two photos as a stereogram--focus through the plane instead of crossing your eyes. If they were identical, there would be no 3d effect. My eyes can't figure out how to resolve the foreground waves, because the photographers were too far apart, but the spray wraps around the lighthouse as you would expect.
As a side note, it is possible to train yourself to stereogram your eyes at will (I've done it). This makes "spot the difference" puzzles a triviality. Which is, in itself a triviality, but an entertaining one.
The carpet in my office frequently fools my eyes into the wrong focus. I have been tempted to use a marker to leave a secret message in it for my successor, but that seems like more work than my actual job.
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#159I had the same thing happen with one of my photos of lightning in London. I actually thought my shot had been ripped off at first glance, then realised it was from a different angle. Mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beechlights/2739042419/in/phot... Alternative, from the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2515...
Looks at first sight like much of a bigger coincidence, but given that you probably both used a long shutter speed (yours seems to have been 6s) and selected the nicest of a number of shots, it's not like there are crazy chances against getting two almost identical shots like this.
Oh yeah, I don't deny it isn't insanely improbable. Still, finding same strike in a newspaper, shot from a very similar angle, was quite surprising.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always been a dream of mine, sadly I don't think as a lowly French IT person that there is a way for me to have that experience. Thanks for sharing
Depends on what age you are, if you are less than 30 it's not very difficult to get to Dumont d'Urville. I went to Kerguelen island myself as a sysadmin (14 months, a winterover). I had the choice between Kerguelen, Crozet, New Amsterdam and Dumont d'Urville, I don't regret my choice at all even if Kerguelen lacks the special distinction of being on Antarctica . The Polar Institute, IPEV, recruits about 10 or so IT-r…
I've always been strangely fascinated by Kerguelen. Maybe I should try to figure out if I can justify doing an experiment there...