What Are The Chances?

Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
It'd be very easy, actually, if it was the same camera, taking two shots one right after the other.


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What I wrote above, I wrote just before I read the linked article. I have to agree with the sense of credulity that such plagiarism accusations that turn out to be false are not more common. It seems that what happened here, must happen all the time—two people, on the same boat, bus, airliner, or other large conveyance, happen to see the same impressive sight, at about the same time, and end up taking nearly-identical pictures of it.
 
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Lawrence

Senior Member
And of course being picked up as displayed somewhere.
How do you even find that sort of thing out if you aren't looking for it?
Pure coincidence.
 
wev

wev

Senior Member
Contributor
We (or some of us) are too linked in to not see this in ever increasing numbers. Last week there were four of us shooting the same preening Allen's hummer at the Arb. Two of us also post to the same Facebook Hummingbird group. We could have posted nearly identical shots -- we were only four feet apart and at the same distance from the bird, shooting like mad. Multiply that by the contents of a tour boat and the number of people with cameras of one sort or another and it's bound to happen.

(Oh, and she posted hers first and I refrained after seeing it)
 
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Moab Man

Senior Member
I had my own odd coincidence with my own photo. Two years ago I shot a dandelion at a low angle with the sun setting behind it. When I sat down to edit I discovered a fly was on it. Last year I went out to duplicate this shot from a year prior. I shot the image but the colors that evening just never materialized. However, going through what I shot one year later, there was a fly once again. I couldn't stop laughing.
 
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