Strangers in the crowd

I often wonder whether my face pops up in other people's photos. You know, people I have never met but perhaps I walked in to the frame while they were taking a happy snap on the street and there I am in the background somewhere. It seems likely. There sure are a lot of strangers in my photos, so I must be in someone else's right?

Check this photo out.

It's a photo Neville took of Cadel Evans the other day. We wandered down to St Kilda Road on our lunch break to watch him ride past. It was kind of anticlimactic actually. But Neville managed to take this nice photo. When I look at it, I can't help but notice all the people I don't know in it. Including Cadel Evans! But seriously. I mean all the faces in the crowd. I have no idea who these people are, but there they are in my photo, on my computer. It's kind of funny to think that we are in other people's photo libraries, just like these people are in mine. I'm glad I was having a slow day when I uploaded this photo and felt inclined to ponder this thought. If I hadn't, then I might never have discovered the very unusual thing in this picture.

Can you spot it?

What about now?

Where is the rest of that person's finger???!!!

And who is that person with the missing finger?

I know lots of people probably lose their fingertips in household accidents (well, I guess they do), so I don't want to make a big deal out of it. But I find it really bizarre that I have this photo of an incomplete hands, and I have no idea who they belong to. I was standing right behind that person, and the whole time they were missing half a finger! And I'll never know who this person with the missing finger is!

Wow everybody, WOW!