Took a Photo: Captured a RFF Member!

[raid]

I was taking some street photos in Europe recently, and I posted some results here. The thread is slow moving but the comment by one of the RFF members stunned me; he actually was in a photo of a street with one man in it! What are the chances that a randomly taken photo of one man ends up being a photo of a RFF member?

Well, if we take the "street population" of Amsterdam on a sunny day, we may have one million adults. The number of RFF members living/visiting Amsterdam streets that day maybe is 100.

==> Probability = 100/1,000,000 (crude estimate).

Wow. RFF members are everywhere, it seems.


Raid

Ref: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=530454#post530454

 

[back alley]

that's a little freaky!

j

 

[raid]

Yes, Joe. It is freaky indeed. Has this ever happend to any RFF member before?
This shows you that the RFF is a world wide event.

Raid

 

[back alley]

Yes, Joe. It is freaky indeed. Has this ever happend to any RFF member before?
This shows you that the RFF is a world wide event.

Raid

either that or you are secretly working for the cia...

 

[raid]

Joe: Now I am doubting myself. I will keep all my secrets away from myself!

Raid

 

[back alley]

trust no one...

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

It is a pity that you didn't get a chance to talk with him while you were in Amsterdam.

wayne

 

[raid]

Wayne: I had no clue who he was. I stayed at that location for two hours only.
It would have been nice to chat with him.

Raid

 

[RML]

Cool! Could easily have been me. My wife works just behind the Royal Palace and since she works there I've been frequenting the inner city much more regularly.

When were these shots taken? Quite recently, I reckon, judging from teh sunny weather. And rather early morning on a week day, I guess, judging from the few people and slow traffic. 🙂

 

[SolaresLarrave]

That's so weird... and yet so inexorably inevitable! 🙂

Sorry, been grading papers for a while and am not yet done.

That's a funny story, Raid. Take care! 😉

And I mean it... 😱

 

[telenous]

Heh, quite improbable. Yet, here's something that happened to me just the other day:

After finishing a couple of things I had to do downtown, I was taking a few frames - among them, the one attached. (The gent in the foreground with that thing in his hand is what attracted my photographic curiosity). I developed the neg a few days after and scanned yet another few days later. As I scanned I relised that the young lady in the background was somewhat familiar. I enlarged the frame, and with relative certainty, I can say that she is a friend - acquaintance really - that I haven't seen for fiffteen years, and when I last did it was in another country, and in circumstances that, from where I now stand, seem almost like another life.

 

[wilt]

I shot a street photo, put it up on my blog and later on it turned out to have an RFF member's son in it. Here's the shot.

 

[ray_g]

That IS quite a coincidence. Which part of Amsterdam? If in the red light district, you will need to account for the gender bias on RFF. 😉

 

[raid]

That IS quite a coincidence. Which part of Amsterdam? If in the red light district, you will need to account for the gender bias on RFF. 😉

Ray: I did not have th honor of visiting "the district". The photo was taken just outside the range of a major square. People from Amsterdam will tell us which place it was.

Here is the photo:

Raid

 

[raid]

That's so weird... and yet so inexorably inevitable! 🙂

Sorry, been grading papers for a while and am not yet done.

That's a funny story, Raid. Take care! 😉

And I mean it... 😱

Francisco,
Mentioning grading of papers, I need to continue doing that too right now. I wish there is an invention that takes care of grading papers, but not the multiple choice exams graded online.

Raid

 

[raid]

Cool! Could easily have been me. My wife works just behind the Royal Palace and since she works there I've been frequenting the inner city much more regularly.

When were these shots taken? Quite recently, I reckon, judging from teh sunny weather. And rather early morning on a week day, I guess, judging from the few people and slow traffic. 🙂

RML: I took the photo a few weeks ago. The weather was great indeed.

Raid

 

[doitashimash1te]

Ray: I did not have th honor of visiting "the district". The photo was taken just outside the range of a major square. People from Amsterdam will tell us which place it was.

Here is the photo:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t261/raidamin/82031-R1-13-12A.jpg


Raid

It's "Dam Square". The Dutch simply call it "de Dam" (the Dam).

Here's a Google Earth placeholder of the exact spot where the picture was taken:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~acben/Raids_photo.kmz

 

[raid]

It's "Dam Square". The Dutch simply call it "de Dam" (the Dam).

Here's a Google Earth placeholder of the exact spot where the picture was taken:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~acben/Raids_photo.kmz

Amazing! Thanks for pinpointing the spot where I caught you on film.

Raid

 

[Pherdinand]

🙂 funny. I took a long look on your shot sonw since on monday i was in Amsterdam on the streets, all day long. OK, from 12 o'c lock on, when I arrived.
So it could have been me.
And i see the bus/tram stop commercials, that I recognize, and those are changing quite often, so you must have been there within a few days when I was.
Yes, funny coincidence.

 

[xayraa33]

it is a small world.
nice hip photos Raid.
the Dutch sure love gardening,.. with that Quality Seed Bank shop in the heart of a cosmopolitan city and all ;-)