--- title: This Perfectly Timed Dog Photo Produced The Greatest Fail description: This funny dog photo fail is the remedy to Monday woes. canonical: https://time.com/5731572/dog-photo-fail/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-11-18T16:37:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:02.548Z og:title: Perfectly Timed Dog Photo Produced The Greatest Fail og:description: This funny dog photo fail is the remedy for Monday og:url: https://time.com/5731572/dog-photo-fail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Perfectly Timed Dog Photo Produced The Greatest Fail twitter:description: This funny dog photo fail is the remedy for Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Perfectly Timed Mini Dog Photo Produced the Most Successful Fail ## 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)  _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. 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