Double Take

January 04, 2013

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Double Take

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Camille Toole sent this photo of herself as a little girl to a friend, Blake Oliver. Looking at the photo, Blake realized that the woman walking through the background was his grandmother. Although they'd never met, and lived on opposite coasts of the United States, Camille and Blake's grandmother were both on vacation in Canada, and managed to be captured in the same place, at the same moment, on film.

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