For 40 Years, 5 Friends Clicked Exactly The Same Picture: See How They Looked By The End Of It
A heartwarming story of great friends is breaking the internet and rightly so! In 1982, five friends clicked a picture at Copco Lake along the California-Oregon border and clicked a similar photo every five years at the same lake for 40 years.
A group of five guys, in an ode to their friendship, has been taking the same picture at the same place.?John Wardlaw, Mark-Rumer Cleary, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson have been clicking the same photograph in the same pose for 40 years now.
Same place, same pose
Moreover, the location of the picture at Copco Lake along the California-Oregon border is also the same. The first one dates back to 1982 where the lads can be seen posing shirtless with the other ones taken in 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017.?They took the ninth photo on Wednesday despite one of them having fought cancer recently.
The five friends sat in the same order and in the same poses. Mark Rumer-Clearly always has a hat on his lap or knee while John Molony always holds a jar in his right hand.?The pictures went viral soon after being shared online.
See all the pictures from different years at Metro.uk.?
Twitterati erupts in joy
Netizens simply loved them and took to the comments section to express their thoughts.??
"I was crushed. We worried there would be an empty spot on the bench where we take the picture," John Dickson told CNN.
Dallas Burney, seated in the middle of the series of photos, had a cancerous tumour removed from his left leg in 2019.
"My cancer -- liposarcoma, I knew something was wrong for many months," Burney, an elementary school teacher, said.?
?John Molony is a photographer in New Orleans, Rumer-Cleary is retired and lives in Portland, Oregon. John Wardlaw is a filmmaker and photographer based in Bend, Oregon. Burney, an Air Force veteran, has been teaching in Northern California while John Dickson runs a tourism website.
While four of them are 59 years old, Rumer-Cleary is 58.They had clicked the first photo in their late teens with an automatic camera timer.
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