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Man unknowingly took one in a million picture and didn't realize until much later

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Published 16:04 5 Feb 2024 GMT

Man unknowingly took one in a million picture and didn't realize until much later

He captured a brilliantly unique picture while hiking

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

A man was left stunned after he noticed the incredibly small detail he managed to capture in a photo.

If you are in a new location, the great outdoors or just see anything mildly interesting, you might snap a photo of it.

You pull out your phone out, take a few pics and put it away again. Standard.

Maybe at the end of the day you look through the photos to post on your social media, delete some of the blurry or less flattering ones and then keep it moving.

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In 2018, Gavin Best shared one of his photographs from a hike out atop Cavehill, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and noticed a peculiar detail in the background.

Upon closer inspection he realized it truly was a one in a million shot and, after posting it on X, many users thought the same.

Gavin Best shared one of his photos from a hike out atop Cavehill, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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At the time, he wrote: "Took this photo a few days ago. Just spotted something in the distance and zoomed in. How's that for coincidental timing?"

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Gavin's photo features a lovely grassy hill and a rockier crag in the distance, a truly gorgeous landscape and a dramatic skyline.

If you zoom in on that rocky outcrop in the distance though, you'll spot a tiny detail that's the key to all of this - there's actually another person on there. Thankfully the photo is high-resolution enough that we can zoom right in to see things more clearly.

It's not normally something worth mentioning, one person takes a photo of another person, what's the big deal? But it is the pose that makes it such a brilliant picture.

The person in the distance is captured perfectly in the middle of a star jump, arms and legs both splayed out, with quite impressive form.

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The best photobomb.
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Whether he spotted Gavin with his phone out pointed in his direction and thought it would be fun to photobomb the image or was just taking some extra exercise while out and about is anyone's guess, but the results are hilarious.

Some users on social media questioned whether there was a darker story to the photo - that the individual was actually jumping off of the cliff - but Gavin put those theories to rest.

“In response to the handful of suggestions that the person might've been jumping *off* the cliff, can I reassure you that the next couple of photos, taken moments later, showed 2 or 3 people up there,” he wrote.

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So, props to Gavin on such a brilliant photo.

Featured Image Credit: X/@bestgav

Topics: Photography, Social Media, Weird

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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