Comments on: SERENDIPITY AND PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/02/15/serendipity-luck-photography-fortunate-moments/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tom Pietrasik http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/02/15/serendipity-luck-photography-fortunate-moments/#comment-46 Tom Pietrasik Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:02:21 +0000 http://blog.tompietrasik.com/?p=708#comment-46 It all makes you wonder if the chap in the shirt has a photograph of you taken on that same day outside the Met! With the ubiquity of digital cameras in phones, I am sure that this sort of thing will occur ever more frequently in the future. And perhaps, with the advent of face-recognition software, it won't be long before we're able to find ourselves self hidden in someone else's online photo archive. It all makes you wonder if the chap in the shirt has a photograph of you taken on that same day outside the Met! With the ubiquity of digital cameras in phones, I am sure that this sort of thing will occur ever more frequently in the future. And perhaps, with the advent of face-recognition software, it won’t be long before we’re able to find ourselves self hidden in someone else’s online photo archive.

]]> By: Dilip D'Souza http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/02/15/serendipity-luck-photography-fortunate-moments/#comment-45 Dilip D'Souza Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:02:17 +0000 http://blog.tompietrasik.com/?p=708#comment-45 Tom, this reminds me of something that I think about sometimes. Many shots we take outdoors are likely to have some random person in them, whether on purpose or serendipitously -- like the ones in your post. I can't help wondering if I figure in any number of such photos in albums around the world -- perhaps somebody's memories of their visit to the Taj, for example, have me pottering around somewhere in the background. Somewhere I have a picture I took of a few friends outside the Met in NYC. It was only several years later that I noticed that a random man in the frame was wearing a shirt identical to one I used to own at the time, and quite possibly the one I was wearing that day. Tom, this reminds me of something that I think about sometimes. Many shots we take outdoors are likely to have some random person in them, whether on purpose or serendipitously — like the ones in your post. I can’t help wondering if I figure in any number of such photos in albums around the world — perhaps somebody’s memories of their visit to the Taj, for example, have me pottering around somewhere in the background.

Somewhere I have a picture I took of a few friends outside the Met in NYC. It was only several years later that I noticed that a random man in the frame was wearing a shirt identical to one I used to own at the time, and quite possibly the one I was wearing that day.

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