Proposal Accidentally Captured in Time-Lapse Photo

Photography, at least outside of the studio environment, can be incredibly unpredictable. When shooting people, animals, or even architecture, you're at the mercy of elements that are completely beyond your control.

Of course, this can sometimes result in a very happy accident, like it did for Michael Justin Porco, who shot a short time lapse of Bethesda Fountain in New York's Central Park. Porco started the time lapse and was forced to stop a minute later because of rain, but in that short amount of time he captured something unexpected.

Porco says that he was about to delete the series of photographs - the time-lapse only lasted for half a second after all - when he decided to check them over one last time. "And that's when I saw it," he writes. "Directly in the middle of the frame, as if I had planned it: a man proposing to his girlfriend."

Porco is now on a quest to find the couple. The photos were shot on Saturday, May 7th at 12:41pm. You can find more details as well as the full series at Michael Porco's site.

(via PetaPixel)