There is always that someone..

..that makes an appearance when everyone else is posing neatly for a photo!

The photo bomber!

The role that was first played by a friend or familymember, long before the age of digital photography. That somone who merrily posed the V fingers behind the head of his sister or grandparents on the familyportrait...and the damage was only discovered weeks later when picking up the prints from the lab. What a laugh.
In the new millenium photobombing became a trend, a way to become famous (throwing oneself repeatedly into the photo of a celebrity), those who were "best" at it got portrayed in the media! Then photobombing became a "recognized" marketing strategy, the socalled brand exposure through photobombing. There are even tutorials online as to how to use the concept with success! A cheap strategy in a double sense! In year 2014 we saw the peak of photobombing, when what we can call "reverse" photobombing was invented by members of the british royal family that on various occasions photobombed "normal" people (quickly copied by other celebrities, and you have a hard time figuring out who benefits the most from it, the photobomber or the photobombed subject..maybe both) and subsequently photobomb was chosen the word of the year 2014 by the Collins English Dictionary.

This duck has thrown itself on the latest trend in the series: animal photobombing!