16 People Who Captured Rare Moments on Their Camera and Made the World Wider for Us All

Every person touches their phone approximately 2,617 times every day, a research found. And it’s not only to phone your mom and dad, to text your colleagues, and check Instagram. Sometimes, we grab our phones when we happen to see something truly awesome. And thankfully there are a lot of online spaces to share your findings.

Bright Side collected 16 sights that made us happy someone picked up a camera to capture so we could keep them in our memories forever.

1. “I’m a vet tech and we neutered my rat today. Here he is being put under.”

2. “These large pumpkins I saw on the freeway”

3. “I saw some ants carrying a glove up a streetlight.”

4. “This phone booth turned into a fish tank.”

5. “This restaurant puts a mesh net over your lemon so when you squeeze it, no seeds get in your food.”

6. “Found this spider hammock made of leaves at the bus stop”

7. “This tree with eye-shaped formations on it. Found in the woods”

8. “This 11-lb mushroom from my parent’s backyard”

9. “Frog-shaped hole in a sidewalk”

10. “This leopard shark at the aquarium says ’I AM.’”

11. “Glitch in the matrix”

12. “A school bus in Amsterdam”

13. “Bag of chips swelled up after driving from 400′ elevation to 4400′ elevation.”

14. “An owl that’s been carved into a tree, along my favorite forest trail”

15. “A real-life lion turtle”

16. “This rat getting an ultrasound”

Have you ever captured something that you thought the entire planet needed to see? If so, please share your pictures with us.

Got some cool photos or stories and want to be featured on Bright Side? Send them all right HERE and right now. Meanwhile, we’re waiting!