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33 Perfectly Timed Photos

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You may be the best photographer in the world, but sometimes all it takes to take the best shot is being in the right place at the right moment. It doesn’t even matter if you take it with your cell or high-end DSLR. Often, you won’t even notice you made an incredible picture until you come home and transfer your photos to a computer.

However, that doesn’t mean you should stop improving your photography skills and just wait for that one and only moment. As a popular saying goes:

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

So be prepared for it and be lucky! Here are 33 perfectly timed photos to get you inspired.

Update: Perfectly Timed Photos (PART II) is out!

Photo Credits: bukagambar.com

Photo Credits: taringa.net

Photo Credits: engine.co.ua

Photo Credits: underwatercompetition.com

Photo by Simon Dawson

Photo Credits: iq-1.livejournal.com

Photo Credits: nature-wallpapers

Photo Credits: dailymail.co.uk

Photo Credits: kolyan.net

Photo Credits: unknown

Photo Credits: siteaks.com

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Photo Credits: sports.pixnet.net

Photo Credits: Pam Mullins

Photo Credits: perfectlytimedphotos.com

Photo Credits: Jibby

Photo Credits: tapuz.co.il

Photo Credits: buzzfeed.com

Photo Credits: simboragora.com

Photo by Matt Stuart

Photo Credits: metro.co.uk

Photo Credits: unknown

Photo Credits: burkhalter.pro

Photo Credits: unknown

Photo Credits: animalpicture.ru

Photo Credits: Tatiana Mikhina

Photo Credits: konctanciya.info

Photo Credits:  telegraph.co.uk

Photo Credits: Tustel Ico

Photo Credits: oddee.com

Photo Credits: walnussodersack.blogspot.com

Photo Credits: buzzfeed.com

Hey, wait, there’s only 32 pictures here! Can you suggest the 33rd?

P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors. We’ll be more than happy to credit and provide a link back to the photographer.

Update: Perfectly Timed Photos (PART II) is out!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/TheMarkcomGroup The Markcom Group via Facebook

    carpe diem!

  • http://www.facebook.com/LandscapeArchitectsPage Landscape Architects Network via Facebook

    Awesome pictures!

  • http://www.facebook.com/flurgx Lucas Fuchs via Facebook

    33 photos and 77 shares // magic all around

  • Anila Ahmed via Facebook

    these are fantastic! had my own lucky moment recently at the Andrews Air Show 2012. looked to me like my little boy got a hold of that chopper that was in mid-air in this pic. didn’t realize it until after I downloaded it from the camera :)
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150836913713742&set=a.10150836885753742.415674.500828741&type=3&theater

  • http://www.facebook.com/ingrid.sandoval.39 Ingrid Sandoval via Facebook

    G E N I A L E S!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/heike.andreae Heike Andreae via Facebook

    Super.

  • http://www.facebook.com/boredpanda Bored Panda via Facebook

    Anila Ahmed I can’t see your picture. Try linking directly to jpg file or change privacy settings to “public”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/miri.nushi Miri Nushi via Facebook

    Gjen

  • Homer Diterranee

    The one with the finger on the nose is from Matt Stuart

  • http://www.facebook.com/katarzyna.kural Katarzyna Kural via Facebook

    boskie:)

  • Shona Morris via Facebook

    have a look…

  • http://www.facebook.com/andromega Andreas Urs Boss via Facebook

    my favorit is the baseball bat, but most of the others are great too. only the salmon catching bears don’t fit in this category.

  • Diego

    Bueno muy bueno, escribiendo esto y no puedo parar de reír……..jajaja

  • Anonymous

    I must say i completely agree with Angus, the eagle is fake and the mannequin one is from an ad. I love the rest, though.

    As for the suggested pics by other people here, they are all crap, apart from Nick’s. :-)

  • Guestguest

    The picture of a man getting his nose picket by a giant hand of a billboard is a well-known photo by street photographer Matt Stuart.

  • Marion Burmeister via Facebook

    !!!

  • gio

    the image with ice skaters is altered. It’s possible to see two reflections (as a mirror) of the ice floor on both sides…

  • Anonymous

    There’s a link to the image source below. It was featured on the Telegraph, so it’s real.

  • Unclebiltmore

     Multiple light sources, like you get in a rink, will cause that.

  • Beth
  • Anonymous
  • Tamar Elmensdorp-Lijzenga via Facebook

    Funny

  • http://www.facebook.com/Adnane93 Adnane Balkoumi

    Excellent
     

  • Matos Yashica

    It is quite obvious that some of them are Photoshoped and “worse”, some are well composed photos, imagined by the photographer, like the one from Tatiana Mikhina…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=739592989 Santiago Leon O

    How awesome !! 

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    I get “This content is currently unavailable” error.
     

  • AMIT SHUKLA

    Webdesign  Belgium

    Wonderful Design Blogs, Such a great list. Thanks for sharing all these blogs all are very useful to every one.

  • Anonymous

    mmm learn from the best ….   hip shots are discrete…. so are Apples!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/beatrice.gully1 Beatrice Gully

    LA PATINEUSE , je crois qu’elle n’apprécie pas la position ! tout le reste est super drôle… Et même à mourir de rire : merci !

  • http://twitter.com/JCDeRusso Janae

    I took this in Lisbon, Portugal last December! 
    http://youvegotnae.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/20111209-094345.jpg

  • Lila Witt Locati

    Thanks for sharing the awesome photos!  Lila

  • Lila Witt Locati

    Thanks for sharing the awesome photos!  Lila

  • Lila Witt Locati

    Thanks for sharing the awesome photos!  Lila

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001253949886 Joel Aittomäki

    here is a perfectly timed picture -head first! http://www.usefilm.com/image/518663.html

  • redheadwithwhip

     The shadow underneath her looks like she’s flying on a magic carpet.

  • Triangleguy

    Some of these are hilarious…

  • user
  • Getganesan

    The appearance of a flying carpet on which she stands!,,!

  • EW

    Imagine sitting next to a sun umbrella at a beach, seeing an aircraft high up in the sky, watching the sun set, and taking a photo…

  • http://www.timelinecovershelp.com/category/vectors/ Vectors

    Change your banner to a unique facebook timeline covers. … May 14: It might be a little late, but we still decided to add creative The Avengers cover images.

  • Peely22

    Here is one of mine.  There’s always one photographer with the biggest lens :)
    http://500px.com/photo/5834340 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Harry-Cover/696267300 Harry Cover

    Mine is also amazing: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696267300&sk=photos

  • Tsmaddix

    If I can get one picture like one of these I will die happy!

  • Klausjanisch

    The quality of these “Snapshoots” stands for itself, bravo!
    Epilogue: “Sir Charles is accused of sexual harassment by the soldiers? hope not! :(

  • Mary Trebilco
  • Naeem Younis

    nice pic

  • Guest

    Me and my friends enjoying our time, captured when my friend by accidently flicked my drink out of my hand… you can see the straw flying :)

  • Lindsey Rae Goldstein

    Lol

  • Pepsodont

    and nobody f***ing cares.

  • nick El
  • http://twitter.com/fotoamater_com Radovan Rasho Pavlic

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=241226099284639&l=7ab91003c3

    Snapped in Tokyo’s Ueno park, a homeless man was feeding sparrows, probably would do it everyday, since some of them were literally eating from his hand…

  • Raja Islam
  • starlight

    All these pictures are so cool! I do only have one question though, you know the photo with the guy that got hit in the face with a baseball bat? well why isnt the guy thats some what beside him not protecting his daughter??!!! Yikes

  • starlight

    Bahaha I love this one!!! So awesome!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreas.hannig Andreas Hannig

    Ich find dies klasse (photographer: Mike Hannig, Hanstedt, Germany 10 years old)

  • julie jumper

    Hello in case im not to late… i would like to propose one picture i took in india… its not really funny tho… bit hard! http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/juliejumper/373.jpg

  • Nando Pereira
  • Nando Pereira
  • koam

    Butifule photos

  • derek chmielarski

    Here is one photo I did take in 2009 at the EX in Toronto & Air Show. Being on the ground surrounded by buildings and not be able to see what direction the planes might come from. It really was a pure luck and timing; I wasn’t even ready for this. I heard the planes flying really low so I kind of new where they are coming from. As soon I heard and saw them I quickly lifted up my camera towards the planes and took the shot, I only had time for one shot…planes didn’t wait on me:). This image is unedited straight out of the camera. I used Sony A700 with Minolta 80-200 f2.8 HS APO G lens which really helped a lot with very quick focus. Enjoy the image at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chmielarski/3898254110/in/set-72157622171021165/