50 Photos That Provide “Alternate Angles” On Events, Places, And Things You Might Not Have Seen Before (New Pics)
InterviewIt all depends on your perspective. Changing how you look at things—and we mean this quite literally—can really make you reconsider what you think you know… and spark your creativity while you’re at it.
The r/AlternateAngles subreddit does exactly what it says on the tin, and it does it well. Members of the online community share photos of iconic events and places. However, there’s a twist! The pics are taken from different angles than we’re used to seeing on the news, in history books, and on social media.
It’s a fresh way to look at history, art, and landmarks, and we’re so in love with the very idea that we couldn’t wait to share their best new featured photos with you, dear Pandas. As you’re scrolling down, upvote the photos that impressed you the most, and be sure to go and follow the subreddit to see their latest pics. Forget what you think you know, you’re about to see a different side to everything.
Bored Panda got in touch with the friendly team running r/AlternateAngles for a follow-up interview, and they were kind enough to answer our questions. Check out what a representative of the moderator team told us as you scroll down!
Oh, and what’s this? The previous article Bored Panda put together about r/AlternateAngles? Well, would you look at that? Why, that’ll be perfect if you want a follow-up after you’re done enjoying this list, Pandas.
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The 15 Mile-Long Shadow Of Mt. Fuji In Japan
One of the moderators who helps run the entire r/AlternateAngles community shared with Bored Panda their take on why the subreddit continues to be so popular and why people are so fascinated by entirely new perspectives.
"We are a unique subreddit that offers pictures that you don't normally see in other subs or the internet in general," they told Bored Panda, adding that sometimes you do see cross-posts from other subreddits or taken from the internet, e.g. from Facebook.
"I think the fascination of, for example, the back frame of the Mona Lisa, is something most people never get to see. We generally don't allow pictures of cats, dogs, food, and generic houses with some spin, but require famous artwork, people, monuments, or events—something everyone will recognize from all the famous photos that are published, but not from the perspective of the photo posted in our sub."
Under A Mushroom Cap
Forbidden Angle
The worst angle for a picture of a seal
In the mod's opinion, the perspective can completely change the tone and feel of the photo. However, they noted that most, if not all, of the images shared on r/AlternateAngles "aren't from professional photographers but instead by Joe Average with an iPhone instead of the latest and greatest digital camera" which means that the sub really is open to everyone. The angle and the idea behind it are more interesting than all the other technical fluff.
"It's those alternate angles that aren't well published that give people a unique perspective of a location, event, or artwork that they had never been made aware of."
The Inside Of A Cello
Saturn's North Pole Is A Hexagon
World, Pacific Ocean View
The mod took the Mona Lisa example a bit further to show the unique perspective (pun not intended) that the sub brings even more. "Everyone can go on the internet and see a picture or travel to the Louvre Museum. It was at an odd time while they were fixing the location that a few people could see the back side for the first time. The same could be applied to taking a photo of the Statue of Liberty looking straight up or a photo of 9-11 from an amateur that hadn't been published before. I think people are fascinated by that," the moderator shared with Bored Panda.
"Personally, I feel the quality of the photo has little to do with the popularity but rather the uniqueness of the photo and perspective. The centering of the photo, the proper color gradient, and the perfect focus have little to do with popularity. I think also it is very subjective as to what users are interested in, however, the more unique the perspective plays a large part into how popular a post is."
Don't Know About You, But I Very Rarely See Images Of The Grand Canyon Taken From Right Down At The Bottom. It's A Very Long Way Down, And In A Sense A Much Longer Way Back Up - That Might Be The Reason
Last Photograph Of The Last Run Of Ladder 118 As It Crosses The Brooklyn Bridge... None Of The Firefighters Would Survive
Hedgehog Getting An X-Ray
Created relatively recently, at the start of summer in 2019, the subreddit has become the home to nearly 150k redditors since then. The community has a very unique way of looking at history, art, landmarks, and life in general, and it’s what keeps its members coming back.
The content is as educational as it is entertaining, and odds are that you’ll end up sending quite a few of these pics to your friends if you’re anything like us. And the cool thing is that once you realize that r/AlternateAngles is a thing, you can’t help but start considering events, well-known places, and even ideas from different sides.
Previously, my colleague reached out to the mod team helping run the entire r/AlternateAngles community, and they were kind enough to answer some of Bored Panda’s questions.
They told us a bit about the origins of the group: “A comment in another subreddit of famous pictures suggested that someone should create a sub of different views of famous pictures, which led to the creation of r/AlternateAngles by u/Murkon and another Redditor who decided to step down and is no longer a moderator.”
The Sahara Desert With A Snowfall On It
The Two Sides Of A Neon Sign
Looking Up - The Eiffel Tower
According to the mods, the concept of r/AlternateAngles “can be summed up by a rule: Limit all submissions to alternate views, or unique perspectives, of well-known locations, items, people, and events. An alternate angle of your kitchen does not qualify but Gordon Ramsay's kitchen does."
In the mods’ opinion, what’s well-known is very subjective. “The occasional post of an obviously non-well-known picture slips through, but we strive to keep with the original objective,” they told Bored Panda.
Some posts actually turn out to be fakes or have been photoshopped, which goes against the rules of the subreddit. The moderators rely on the help of their “fantastic and active user base” to help out with filtering out those.
Those of you who plan on posting, not just lurking, on the sub should keep a few additional rules in mind. Obviously, you shouldn’t be manipulating or editing any photos to try and trick the internet. That’d just mean (and frankly, we don’t really see the point).
Great Pyramid Of Giza (From The Sky)
Sunset From Space
A Flying Giant Squirrel From India (Petaurista Philippensis) Caught In The Act On A Sunny Day
I've Never Walked Directly Under An Electricity Pylon Before! There's Some Brilliant Symmetry
What’s more, you should aim to write descriptive titles that let redditors know exactly what they’re seeing. Adding dates is also “highly encouraged.” Meanwhile, if you’re posting a photo of a structure or landmark, then it must bring some unique alternate value. For instance, you might share a pic of a building while it’s being renovated or what it was like while it was still under construction. In short, show the subreddit an alternate temporal angle, too, not just a spatial one.
The Iconic Photo Of Michael Jordan Which Turned Into The Logo
New York’s Manhattan Without Skyscrapers
Photo from 1931. https://viewing.nyc/this-incredible-vintage-aerial-photograph-shows-manhattan-from-above-in-1931/
Alas, if you’re a fan of memes, then r/AlternateAngles is definitely not the place for those. What’s more, the mod team wants everyone to have a great time, so there’s a zero-tolerance policy for personal attacks on other redditors. You can end up being banned if you don’t follow the rules (which might provide a very unusual angle to the whole subreddit experience, but that’s way too meta and it’s better not to risk it).
Albert Einstein Before His Famous Photo With His Tongue Out
An Elephant Trunk Seen From Below
News Anchor From The Other Angle
Very recently, Bored Panda spoke about angles and perspectives with professional photographer Dominic Sberna, from Ohio in the US. He stressed that perspective really does mean a huge amount in photography.
"The angle of vantage for the photographer can really change an image," he told us during an earlier interview.
Venice From Above
A Picture Of The Colosseum From The Sky
Penguin Feathers
"It all depends on what you're going for. It's best to play around and try different things to see what looks best and what works best depending on your subject," he said that photographers should play around with angles and see how they can change what the audience feels.
Mount Rushmore Before The Presidents Were Carved In. It Was Called Six Fathers At This Point
It was better that way (Edit: Abandon all hope, ye who enter this comment section)
The Oval Office Between Presidents
The Sphinx From Above
"Make sure to not lose sight of what you're trying to achieve in your image. Have a clear goal in mind with what you're trying to convey,” expert photographer Dominic said that professionals and amateurs alike should remember to focus and always keep their goals at the forefront of their minds.
Cars Never Claimed From Giants Stadium Commuter Lot After 9/11
Not Sure If This Counts But, The Grand Canyon View From A Plane
Mary Poppins Movie, 1964
"Follow the rules of composition and don't make things too small. I have photos of rock climbers at a national park in Nevada, where I personally feel the overall perspective is a bit lost," the photographer noted that everyone has photos that turn out differently than they’d hoped.
"Make sure the audience is able to understand what it is they're supposed to be seeing and comparing the perspective to the surroundings at hand.”
John & Yoko Waiting For The Maid To Make The Bed So They Can Continue Protesting Against The System
cannot stand John Lennon, beat his first wife, left her and Julian to run off with Yoko and was a bully to him when he was around jumped on any popular planet saving idea and was all about living without religion and possession but drove a Bentley
Aerial View Of Over 400,000 People At The Woodstock, 1969
A Photo Of Central Park During The Great Depression (1933)
I can see the rental ad now... "FOR RENT: 1 bed, 1 bath, cozy bungalow. Centrally located, with panoramic city views, on a large lot. Yard needs a little work. $3,400 a month." 🤔
William D. Nuñez Took This Picture Of Aa Flight 175 On September 11th, Seconds Before The Plane Hit The South Tower
The most chilling thing I ever saw was that plane flying into the tower. Knowing people were alive and then dead. Turns my stomach to this day
I'll never forget that moment. I was seven years old watching it live on the tv. Everyone thought it was a freak accident, until this plane appeared and hit the second tower. At seven I couldn't quite grasp the fact that people were hurting and dying, even though I was trying to, but for some reason I felt that sinking feeling when everyone, all at once, when that second plane hit, realized that someone had done this on purpose.
I was a freshman in high school, home sick from school. My mom called, yelling that we were being attacked. I watched the second plane hit on TV but it didn't sink in until much later. They were doing standardized testing that week in Indiana too so the teachers at my HS decided not to tell the students. Most found out at lunch.
Load More Replies...Can you imagine what the people at the windows were shouting. And thinking. And hoping was NOT about to happen.
I remember seeing this little smudge coming into view from the right side of the television screen and before it even registered, there was the explosion and any doubt as to what was happening also exploded. I still hear the shrieks coming from the front of my work place and to this day, when I see footage of that moment, I catch myself holding my breath for several beats, like maybe it won't happen this time.
Load More Replies...Imagine a world without religion. So much unnecessary pain brought to so many over which nonsense god is best.
It wasn't primarily about religion. It was retaliation for US killing of innocent civilians in the middle east. Women, children, elderly. And what did we do after 9/11? Commit the equivalent of hundreds of it there, proving the terrorists right after all.
Load More Replies...I was in bed, trying to talk myself into getting up to go to French class. It was my first semester in college...it hadn't even been three weeks. Then the phone started to ring. I didn't even have a cell phone, back then. I had a close family friend, and an uncle who worked at the Pentagon and my dad's friend's wife had just finished her maternity leave...she was a stewardess on Flight 93. My uncle's office was in a section being renovated, so he wasn't there, and neither was the friend. A lot of lives lost, a lot of lives changed. I can't believe it was so long ago...
WARNING: Don't read below if you don't want to know about a very unpleasant detail about the Sept. 11th New York airplane attack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's still too soon for most painful details to be released. While I appreciate a gov't. investigator telling someone I know about the pair of hand-cuffed hands of a hostage found on the roof of an adjacent building (because it reminds me of the magnitude of this terror attack and helps me 'Feel' what happened rather than just being "history"), I regret knowing this because it horrifies me.
I was going to Greenwich high school, the terror in the school was devastating as so many childrens parent worked in the towers, all lost. It was the most depressing saddening day/sight. I'll never forget it. So many students bawling in the halls. :'(
I hadn’t been born yet but my mom and dad both were in the NAVY at that time and my dad who was in Florida had helped evacuate, and my mom helped injured people I’m pretty sure, this was before my parents met. And at the time after that my mom was just finishing boot camp. And during the graduation everyone was scared to go out in uniform. They got outside got the pictures done in like thirty mins when usually it would’ve taken an hour or two. And they all ran back inside. A year or two after my mother got out of boot camp, she found out that so many parents and so many people blocked their kids and their loved ones from finding out what happened that day. It was truly devastating. There are people out there that don’t know what happened that day. Sad.
It must have been terrifying not knowing if their building would be next.
Load More Replies...I watched that plane hit the second tower on live TV. Felt like I was watching a movie, I couldn't comprehend. My cousin and her husband lived and worked in Manhattan. He worked near the towers and there was no way to get through - all the phones were too busy. Took over a day to finally get in touch. They were safe. Too many were not. So devastating.
Stanley Praimnath is one of the less than 20 survivors above the impact zone in the South Tower and his story is absolutely insane considering he seems to be one of the few if not only inside the building who actually watched as the plane went by the Statue of Liberty and came right at him.
We had a TV in the break room and I also saw this live. Having been in New York a few years previously I understood the size of the buildings. And estimated 10,000 people would have been inside each tower, if it was a few hours later almost 50,000.
I quit watching TV in 1974. never owned one. I was in the hospital the morning when the nurse ran in and flipped on the TV and saw the second crash live. I was freaking out.
My fiancé was in NYC when this happened, and didn’t know what the hell was happening, so he called and asked me to turn on the tv and see. It was horribly shocking to watch live - I tuned in just before the 2nd plane hit.
why are people posting these pics? the poor families who lost people don't need to see these pics.
The horror of watching on TV was enough. Imagine feeling the shockwave as it crashed.
A Picture From The Boom Operator Of Me Refueling On My 100th Mission Over Afghanistan
Michelangelo's 'The Creation Of Adam' As Seen On The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Queen Elizabeth Wax Figure
Underside Of A Horseshoe Crab
View Of Taj Mahal From One Of The Corners. Photo By Me, November 2021
If you asked me what this was I wouldn't know it was the Taj Mahal. It's always photographed one way. This really shows how much work was put into it.
Golden Gate Bridge Under Construction
C-3po
Ghostbusters Firehouse Cleaned Up
A Mall Christmas Display From Above. Also A Little Funny
I'd Never Seen This Angle Of The Sydney Opera House And It Looked Different To Me
Alternate Hairstyles For Dorothy [wizard Of Oz]
She was so beautiful. But she was abused and used and ended up a tortured soul.
The Space Shuttle From The Top
Daft Punk Without Their Helmets On
I can see why they kept the helmets on without them they just look like any weekend dad band
A Rare Picture Showing Michael Jackson's Vitiligo
geeze i am ridiculously uncultured for not knowing this right??
The Mushroom Cloud From An Atomic Test Is Seen From Fremont Street In Downtown Las Vegas, 1955
Las Vegas Police Facing Mike Tyson After He‘D Just Bitten Evander Holyfields Ear Off 1996. What He Saw
Another View Of The Parthenon In The Snow From Above. January 25, 2022
The Fine Tile Details Of The Sydney Opera House Roof With A Dark Sky In Contrast
That building is actually beige not white. And smaller than you might think
Pyramids Of Giza As Seen From A Nearby Pizza Hut A Quarter Mile Away
Satellite Base From Goldeneye [1995]
That guy must have put a lot of effort in to create this! Goldeneye is one of my favourite James bond films. Probably because of Sean Bean!
Machu Pichu From In The Citadel
Eiffel Tower Under Construction, July 1888 [colorized]
Anyone Else Love Seeing How Giant Traffic Things Are? The Length Of The Lines On An Interstate Always Blow My Mind Too
The Crash Site Of The Hindenburg Airship Viewed From Above. May 1937
Me thinking "How did they get a drone back then?! No, wait, it was a plane..." (facepalm)
View Of The Crowd During Martin Luther King Jr's Famous I Have A Dream Speech
Everest And The Himalayas From Iss
Photographer Caught A Good Shot Just Minutes Before The More Famous Image Was Taken On Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 1945
The Beatles Waiting To Cross Abbey Road, 1969
The Ever Given Bulbous Bow After The Suez Canal Incident March 2021
A View Of The Terrain Before The Entrance To Svalbard Seed Vault
Manaslu Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal
An Angle Of The Red Carpet I’ve Never Seen Before
Our Country's (Myanmar) Best Known Independence Monument Is Actually Six Stars If Observed Directly From Above
Statue Of Liberty
Peru's Nazca Lines But At Ground Level
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Seen From The Back
On The Set Of Batman
Look At This Photograph… Literally
The Bean In Chicago
The Basement Beneath The Lincoln Memorial
View Of San Francisco From Alcatraz
West Philadelphia Neighborhood After Being Bombed By City Police In 1985
New York City
How 'Team America: World Police' Was Made
The Tops Of UPS Trucks Are White
I remember seeing that the top of some trucks was made of some kind of translucent plastic so light would come inside.
Actress Brigitte Helm Having A Break In Costume On The Set Of The 1927 Fritz Lang Film 'Metropolis' In Which She Plays Maria / The Maschinenmensch (The Machine Man)
Squid Game Murder Doll At Netflix Office
Shutter Island
The Origin Of The Meme. From The Original Perspective
The Sistine Chapel
The Back Of Lincoln
The Orville From The Other Side Of The Screen
It's an obvious homage to Star Trek, brilliantly crafted. He takes the tropes and sets them upside down, reinventing them. It's almost as Star Trek would be if those characters seemed more like normal people. But from the opening shots to the music throughout, heavily influenced by Star Trek.
Right After The Shot For Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here Cover
Opening Credits For The Andy Griffith Show
A Shot From The "Subway Grate" Scene In The Seven Year Itch
The Back Of The Rosetta Stone In London
Glastonbury Festival 2022, 220,000 Thousand Attendees
The Opening Scene From Inglourious Basterds
Inside The Bowl Of The Stanley Cup, Names Engraved Are Members Of The 1907 Montreal Wanderers
The Pantheon From McDonald's
Cockpit Of The Concorde Supersonic Airline
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
Statues Overlooking Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
Seinfeld Behind The Scenes
How they got away with the series finale being a CLIP SHOW is beyond me.
Inside The Statue Of Liberty
Fountain From The Intro To Friends (Warner Bros. Ranch, Burbank, Ca)
The U.S Supreme Court
White House Press Room From The Podium
those seats look like something you would find in a theatre, but I guess that is pretty much what politics has now become.
Horseshoe Bend From A Plane
The Other (Non-Cracked) Side Of The Liberty Bell
President Trump With World Leaders At The 2019 G7 Meeting
Bts - Men In Black (1997)
Inauguration Of Lbj On Air Force One. November 22, 1963
LBJ are the initials for Lyndon B Johnson for those who are not familiar with the US presidents
A Rare Angle Of The Infamous 2002 Counterstrike Lan Party Where A Guy Is Ducttaped To The Ceiling. Swipe For The Original Picture
The Back Of The Flamingo Sign, Las Vegas
President George W. Bush Announcing The Beginning Of The Afghanistan War In 2001
People CHARGE for a wedding reception? I know it’s a dinner, but if you don’t have the $ to pay for it, just have finger food. Asking folks to pay for a sit down meal is just RUDE.
People CHARGE for a wedding reception? I know it’s a dinner, but if you don’t have the $ to pay for it, just have finger food. Asking folks to pay for a sit down meal is just RUDE.