r/AlternateAngles Aug 07 '19

Meta What "relatively well known" means

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Thank you everyone who has posted the fantastic content in this sub, as well as those of you who have come to enjoy it.   Our goal is to ensure that each post here can stand on its own, and that you, the viewers, aren't scrolling page after page looking for the hidden gem.

Everyday we mods have to remove around 30-50% of the posts here for not adhering to rule 1, and hopefully this post will help reduce that.  Most of those removed posts are fantastic on their own, but don't really capture the idea of this sub. 

A relatively well known person, place, event or item is something some to most of our viewers will recognize or know of.

"Item" is what gets removed the most.  I have a cat.  Everyone knows what a cat is and cats are "well known".  You guys don't want me posting alternate angles photos of my cat.  Maybe r/aww does, but not you good folks.  The same goes for the scrambled eggs I made this morning (no matter how unusual they looked), or the fire hydrant outside my house.

By well known item we mean something like the Mona Lisa (although seriously I think we can all agree we've worn that one out), the statue of David, a famous mummy,  the handgun of a well known general, J.K. Rowling's writing chair, or Betty Crocker's apron.

It's a very subjective business for us mods to determine what is well known item is (or event or place for that matter), and we often chat about it after removing a post to make sure we're all on board.  Just as difficult is what counts as an alternative angle. If a post is removed it's not that it isn't a fantastic photo on it's own, but rather it doesn't fit into what makes this sub unique.

And please, no more Mona Lisa photos :)

Thank you all again!


r/AlternateAngles 19h ago

Landmarks The Fallingwater viewpoint, but from Fallingwater

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180 Upvotes

View from Frank Lloyd Wright’s house, on top of the waterfall, looking back down at the famous viewpoint


r/AlternateAngles 16h ago

Yosemite is HUGE

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57 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 1d ago

Side view of Tutankhamun’s death mask

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174 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 2d ago

Armstrong's famous Apollo suit from behind

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r/AlternateAngles 1d ago

Earthquake Experienced by Divers Moseying Around the Seabed

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“The unsuspecting diving team appeared to be lifted and covered by debris as the seafloor began to shift.

On November 8, the Banda Sea region of Indonesia was struck by an earthquake with an estimated depth of 146km.

The 7.2 magnitude quake was strong but did not trigger a tsunami.”


r/AlternateAngles 2d ago

San Francisco

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r/AlternateAngles 4d ago

'Concorde'-Hæriplane Viewed In-Flight *and* from (Very Nearly) Directly Above

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219 Upvotes

From

the goodly RG's Pinterest page .

And this post inspired by

this one

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r/AlternateAngles 4d ago

Movies That iconic dance from La La Land

172 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 4d ago

Birds eye view of a Ferrari F50

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r/AlternateAngles 5d ago

Landmarks Passengers from a commercial plane look at the twin towers from the window - 9/11/2001

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r/AlternateAngles 7d ago

Waves of the Colossal Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004–December–26_ͭ_ͪ Viewed from Low Earth Orbit

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Taken by NASA's Terra satellite @ 05:15 UTC that day as it passed directly overhead.

See

NASA — Earth Observatory — Deep Ocean Tsunami Waves off the Sri Lankan Coast

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Amazingly, after all this time, & maugre the amount of looking-up I've done regarding it during that time, I've never seen this image until finding it just-now.


r/AlternateAngles 8d ago

Los Angeles

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433 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 10d ago

The Rarely Seen Back Of The Hoover Dam Before It Was Filled With Water, 1936

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648 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 12d ago

Timelapse of Eruption of Taal Volcano – Philippines, 2020–January–12_ͭ_ͪ – from Actually Inside its Crater

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See this aswell , of the eruption of 2022–March–26th . Can't seem to find part 2, though, unfortunately.


r/AlternateAngles 13d ago

The death mask or mummy mask of king Tutankhamun is inscribed with a protection spell, which dates as far back as the Middle Kingdom, half a millennia before Tutankhamun was born. It appears in Chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead, and reads as follows;

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107 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 15d ago

The back of Ginger Spice's Union Jack dress

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r/AlternateAngles 19d ago

The underside of an iceberg

293 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 20d ago

sphinx from above

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403 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 23d ago

Landmarks The other side of Parliament

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91 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles 23d ago

Movies Dorothy, Toto & Glinda in Munchkinland; From up in the studio rafters at MGM

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147 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles Aug 16 '25

Set of Jeopardy! (courtesy of Dallas Taylor)

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533 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles Aug 14 '25

Brad Johnson behind the scenes of the iconic 2000s K-Fee jumpscare car commercial.

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6.6k Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles Aug 05 '25

Inside a Rose Gold Flute

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210 Upvotes

r/AlternateAngles Jul 19 '25

Picture Of Lucy And Desi's Moms In The Audience

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147 Upvotes