--- 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 > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=3473e9c1-c776-4945-b4c8-254027d0a0af&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## 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. It’s simultaneously adorable and hysterical and goes to show that Adams was right, photography does involve excellent timing. ## Transcript I look for a moment between me and the dog. My name is Elias Weiss Friedman and I take photos of dogs around the world. I think the first rule is to get Down on a dog's level. [ MUSIC ] The next rule is to have something they want. So, that's the toy or food. [ MUSIC ] And to use that and move it around the lens. [ MUSIC ] If you give them a minute to sort of relax They'll sort of lose energy and that's when they will sit and really stare at you. [ MUSIC ] Too easy. [ MUSIC ] It's like I'll stalk the dog a little bit Can I take a photo of your dog? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I tend to perch from the dog's side, so give him a little space. Sit, sit, sit. Sit. Good girl. [ MUSIC ] Dogs are like children for a lot of people. You're asking to photograph something meaningful to them. We have to be sensitive to that. [ MUSIC ] Don't wear clothing that you don't want to get torn up cuz you have dogs jumping on you. You're gonna get slobber all over you. [ MUSIC ] But I have a back up squeaky, beef jerky, lens wipes for slobber on the lens. [ MUSIC ] No? You don't want that? Good Max. He's on. [ LAUGH ] Max, sit. [ MUSIC ] I think that what I want people to get out of my work is sort of an overall sense of happiness. These dogs. All they need is food and love. It's very simple. And you can see that in their face. 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