Took a Photo: Captured a RFF Member!

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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
 
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
 
raid said:
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
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either that or you are secretly working for the cia...
 
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
 
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. :)
 
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... :eek:
 
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.
 

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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_g said:
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. ;)
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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:

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Raid
 
SolaresLarrave said:
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... :eek:
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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
 
RML said:
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. :)
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RML: I took the photo a few weeks ago. The weather was great indeed.

Raid
 
:) 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.
 
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 ;-)
 
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