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“Fox With A McDonald’s Takeaway?”: Once-In-A-Lifetime Photos Taken At The Exact Perfect Moment
Some photos stop you in your tracks. Not because they’re perfectly sharp or technically flawless, but because they capture a moment at the exact right time.
A meteor streaking across the sky during an aurora, a rainbow kissing a boat at Niagara Falls, or even a fox running away with a McDonald's order — these are the moments that make photography feel magical.
Some moments are just so fleeting and rare that it might be impossible to take that exact picture again.
Canon USA recently asked people on the internet to share their once-in-a-lifetime photos, and the results are nothing short of jaw-dropping.
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#1
My sweet girl, Hara. She passed away last year, but this is how i’ll forever remember her. My peaceful sleepy girl.
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Bruce Mardle 7 months ago
Blue t**s are my favourite birds, though this one looks a bit scruffy!
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Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 7 months ago
Oh, I should ever have been so lucky! I was outside once wearing a floral shirt and perfume, and a hummingbird zipped over to me and I didn't know what it was, so I batted at it (like a moron) and it darted away while my spouse remarked, "But I thought you LIKED hummingbirds." :-(
#11
Paddling under the northern lights
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
Hope this was taken with a zoom lens because moose aren't the friendliest of animals.
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Porcupine and bee having a staring contest
#23
This is my once in a lifetime photo and also a once in a lifetime experience. We held a direct visual connection and felt a beautiful mutual respect
#26
Bowman Lake , Montana - this deer popped up out of nowhere and I had my 5DM4 right by my side
Stardust she/her 7 months ago
I painted this exact location for my art project for school last year! It is such a beautiful place
#27
My mum turning into a mermaid
Riley Quinn 7 months ago
AI search result: This image captures a diver swimming amidst a massive school of fish, likely minnows, sardines, or jackfish, in an underwater location such as Marsa Bereva in the Red Sea. The phenomenon of vast schools of fish moving together is a natural occurrence, often involving millions of individuals. Divers often describe the experience as being lost in a "living silver river" as the fish move as one large mass.
#28
The last photo my camera took remotely before an alligator ate it
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
I love watching lightning during thunderstorms, and appreciate photos capturing them. But what amazes me are those lucky chances of photographing Red Sprites since they only last for milliseconds.
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Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
There is nothing quite like watching an animal the size of a house toss itself into the air at a high speed for no other reason than sheer exuberance at being alive.
#35
I think Chip lost Dale…
#36
My daughter was blowing bubbles and I snapped this shot.
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Stardust she/her 7 months ago (edited)
I hope I can someday see a solar eclipse (with eye protection obviously) as they don’t occur frequently enough in my country
#45
I hope it's not once in my lifetime but likely it is... Antarctica.
MR 7 months ago
No. You can see this off the coast of both sides of North America: Along the entire West Coast of the USA & Canada and the Northern part of the USA and Canada. This looks like seal flippers, not a whale, but both can be seen in those areas, except seals aren't in the waters off the eastern side of the USA.
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Just a boring person 7 months ago
reminds of the laser in Alice in Borderland, or a very blue orbital strike
#48
Just this alien. This is a horsehead grasshopper
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
This is a photo of some guy with a headlamp stargazing in Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world's largest salt flat that produces a mirror image.
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Thunderstorm in Amherst,MA.
Riley Quinn 7 months ago
Oh, that area had some humdingers of storms. Down the road from Amherst lies acres of tobacco farms in Hadley. Catching flashes of lightning in that wide open sky by the river was breathtakingly spectacular.
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
Humpback and Bryde's whales use the bubble net technique when surface feeding, which is learned behavior. Using their blowholes to create bubbles, they disorient the fish making it possible to corral them into the bubble net. These gulls are taking advantage of this bounty.
#63
The seagull was lit up by the reflection from the boat I was aboard.
Riley Quinn 7 months ago
It's just gull. I'm trying to break the habit of referring to them as seagulls, but it's low on the list.
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Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 7 months ago
Tornado chasers make me think of this Gene Wilder line - "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land—the common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
#70
Oh and this unexpected shot while I was capturing a random climber down in Malibu. Taken with 5D Mark 3 in 2015.
#72
This doe & fawn in a pasture at sunrise, only lasted a split second before they realized I was there
#74
one of many I took in Las Vegas during lockdown
Stardust she/her 7 months ago
I remember my dad taking me to see where his new company’s office was during lockdown and found it so surreal how empty the roads were, not a single human being for all those kilometres. A while back I had to go down the same stretches of roads for another reason and spent a few hours stuck in the very busy traffic of that region
#77
This one if my dad
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Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 7 months ago (edited)
I don't know why, but I hate watching animals be captured or killed.
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