Photographers, whether professional or novice, share the same goal. They all want to capture that one-in-a-million shot. The funny thing is that no matter how hard most of them try, their success is often a fluke.

As you’ll see from these 60 examples, people were lucky enough to capture pictures at the right time. This is a photographer’s dream come true. If you enjoy photography, you never know, one day, you might be able to add your name to the list of people who did what seems like the impossible.