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Flickr Serendipity
« on: October 09, 2014, 05:39:16 PM »
I have noticed that occasionally, on my Flickr feed page (where I see photos from those I am following) two photos from different people will show up next to each other and somehow seem as though the people were connected by some cosmic juju and their photos 'attracted' one another in my feed. For example:
This photo by Gary99099 appeared just above this photo by József Pataki.

The windows sort of reflect each other and the photos seem to 'want' to be together even though the photographers are in different parts of the world, probably completely unaware of each other. Has anyone else had this experience or noticed this phenomenon? It has happened maybe a handful of times on my feed.
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Re: Flickr Serendipity
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2014, 06:32:43 PM »
I think there was/is a flickr group called accidental diptychs for this sort of thing.

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Re: Flickr Serendipity
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 06:36:42 PM »
I noticed this once...

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Re: Flickr Serendipity
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2016, 09:00:36 PM »
I just had to resurrect this thread for this. From my feed:
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Re: Flickr Serendipity
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2016, 09:13:33 PM »
Ive experienced the same, but with two people I follow who don't know each other and have never met!

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Re: Flickr Serendipity
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2016, 07:29:25 AM »

I popped into a Zenith group on Flickr the other day and saw a 50's Chevy that looked just like one I'd snapped a few years earlier in France, nothing odd about that as I bet load of people take pics of it, but we were both doing it with Zenith SLR's.  It's the heavy metal attraction of engineering ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/milesdavissmiley/5043701075/

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/145092633@N06/29002123893/in/dateposted/

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