Timing is everything, particularly in the case of amazing photography. Sometimes that means waiting through a whole sports game and getting lucky to catch just the right shot. Other times than means trudging through nature for weeks to get the perfect environmental photograph. Here are 25 examples of perfectly timed images from around the world and in various genres.
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Nov 4, ’07
3:48 PM

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3 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.That cat has been in so many photoshopped photos, I’m not sure if this is really the original. Great link! I loved the pic of the kid on the trampoline.
Yeah, cool photos, but this one is photoshopped. The guy has a shadow from the camera’s offset flash, but the cat doesn’t.
The cat’s shadow seems to be on the guy’s jacket.
He forgot one of the most famous ones:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/galleries/covers/ali/072699/ali072699med.jpg
Muhammed Ali was in this victorious stance for less than 1/10 of second, but the photographer, Phil Taylor (??) captured it perfectly. If you watched the fight on TV or saw a video, you wondered when the picture was taken, because it’s such a fleeting moment