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# This Perfectly Timed Mini Dog Photo Produced the Most Successful Fail

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## Video: How to Take Better Photos of Your Dog

[Watch (HLS stream): How to Take Better Photos of Your Dog](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/RhpBI66N.m3u8) (2:45)

![How to Take Better Photos of Your Dog](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/RhpBI66N/poster.jpg?width=720)

_Published 2015-10-12. Elias Weiss Freidman, a.k.a. The Dogist, has photographed more than 8,000 dogs_


by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Nov 18, 2019 4:37 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Nov 18, 2019 4:37 PM UTC

Famed photographer Ansel Adams once credited his success behind the camera to “arriv\[ing\] just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.” If that’s the secret to creating a winning photo, based on a [picture of a dog](https://time.com/4068662/10-tips-to-photograph-your-dog/) and its owner making the rounds of the internet right now, God has a pretty good sense of humor—or a [dog](https://time.com/5700772/dog-halloween-picture-jokes/) has an incredible sense of timing.

A dog owner was just trying to take a cute [selfie with her pup](https://time.com/4020790/amanda-jones-book-dog-photography-2/), but after clicking the shutter, the resulting image was not exactly what she had in mind. User [ShamPow20](https://www.reddit.com/user/ShamPow20/) shared the hilarious selfie on Reddit, writing, “Attempted to take a cute picture of me and my dog. This was the result.”

The perfectly-timed photo shows her dog lifting its head just at the exact right moment to make it look like [dog](https://time.com/5700772/dog-halloween-picture-jokes/) and owner were one and the same with the little pup’s snoot standing in for the owner’s mouth. The combined effect is of a cartoonishly deep frown. It’s simultaneously adorable and hysterical and goes to show that Adams was right, photography does involve excellent timing.

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