These two pictures obviously show the same moment in time. But they are from different cameras, because they were taken from different positions. The background in the AP photo may have been manipulated to remove the out-of-focus figures visible in the Times pic.

How did the two photographers manage to snap the same instant? Both must have been using the burst mode, in which several shots are taken automatically at several frames per second. The question of real interest is whether they -- or their editors -- independently chose images from those series that showed the same moment, to a fraction of a second.

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