Man unknowingly takes one in a million picture and notices days later
Sometimes, the most extraordinary moments happen by accident and Gavin Best knows all about it.
He took a scenic photo in Belfast on New Year's Eve and later noticed a person in the background to his photo.
Whilst out walking at Cavehill, he captured lovely the scenery, with different elements lining up exactly how you'd want.
But it was only when he was looking back at the image later that Gavin noticed a person jumping in the background. Can you see them?
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It seems that Gavin may have been photobombed from a long way away.
Okay, you may be thinking - so there's someone in the background, it happens all the time, big deal?
Except there's more.
If you zoom in very closely onto the figure on the clifftop, it seems that the photo was somehow timed absolutely perfectly.
You are probably familiar with the technique where people jump up in the air to take a picture. It's a common thing with big groups of people, and can be difficult to time properly.
But it seems that Gavin accidentally managed to pull this off from a big distance away.
Zooming in even more reveals that the person in the background is in fact perfectly suspended from the ground. Presumably they were jumping up for another photo to be taken.
Talk about perfect timing, eh?
Gavin shared the snap on Twitter back in 2018, writing: "Took this photo a few days ago. Just spotted something in the distance and zoomed in. How's that for coincidental timing?"
However, some people were concerned about the person in the photo as they were worried they may have been trying to jump off the cliff.
But Gavin reassured them by saying that he had seen a group of people on the clifftop a few minutes later.
The photo was taken on top of Cavehill which Gavin described as 'quite a yomp' to get to.
All the same, it seems pretty clear that with views like that so close to the city it would be more than worth the yomp to the top.
"When I looked at the photos afterwards on my mobile I didn't spot anything; it was only a few days later when I was looking through the photos on my laptop that I noticed something over there, so I zoomed in," he told The Mirror earlier this year.
"I thought it was a hell of a coincidence that I'd happened to capture that exact moment - I hadn't even realised there was anyone over there when I took the picture.
"By pure chance the timing was perfect and it created a funny shot. It would be pretty mad if you managed to find them."
Additional words by Anish Vij.
Kit Roberts