Sharon; I was standing in exactly the same spot as you were, only last week..Unfortunately there are repairs being carried out on the roof .. the Shark is still there !!!.. Best wishes.. Keith (Art4U)
Somehow I recognize this photo I think it got to do with
saving the whales,but in Iceland we (used) to fish
whales.
Great photo Sharon and very very funny.!!!
I think, you very sensitive shooter, my suggestion make item of postcard etc, as souvenir, and selling with approach of and a make message with designing interesting. how ?
Ah, the Headington Shark. Its about 10 miles from where I live, and is 100% genuine. Its been there for over 21 years, and was commissioned by Bill Heine (an American).
Artist Reply: You know what, Joel? I would also love to see the inside. HA!!!! :) Thank you so very much for your wonderful input.
I appreciate it lots.
Have a wonderful day,
Sharon
Don't you just hate when your sitting down to dinner and a unexpected shark drops in LOL, This is one of those shots, if you didn't see it for your self you never would have believed it, Excellent and very interesting capture Sharon. I would love to know the story behind it?
Um, the shark maybe should have veered more to the right, than to the left, to the left! LOL! Thanks for the laugh. Oh, if this really happened then I hope no one got hurt.
Sharon, great photo!! OMG! just proves my theory that one does not have to go surfing to get bit by a great white shark.....I knew it all along.....hugs-Suzi
Wow , I saw this on TV several years ago` and to think of what it must be like in person!! You took a very good shot of this! Makes one wonder what the idea was behind this fish tale ~ :)
What a funny find. Believe it or not..... is it real or is it not what a grand shot I love it I bet they get alot of people checking this out such a grand find thank you so very much for sharing with AW
Awesome photo!!! Either someone has a wonderful imagination/humor or some helicopter lost its load.... or sharks are jumping out of the ocean now, guess the water is getting to hot for them...and they say global warming is not happening. Try to tell the person who has a shark in the roof that. :) Now I have a new thing to ponder this morning! :)
I used to live near this house in Headington...............this brings back so many memories............thanks for showing this :o))
Artist Reply: Thank you, Jacki! This flat is in Oxford, England. Where my daughter & son in-law used to live. There are 2 flats with fish? This made the news years ago when it first appeared.
Have a great day, Sharon
179 Comments
Tonya Merrick 24 Oct 2016
I love this PhotographSno* Smith 04 Jan 2015
Awesome picture!Sandra S. Corona 14 Sep 2013
Love it!Anonymous Guest 16 Oct 2012
This is known locally as the "Headington Shark" and has something of a controversial past. It's been there for 26 years.debra miller 14 Apr 2012
Wow that is a cool picture,Katherine Rosikiewicz 10 Mar 2011
Wow...this is fantastic!!!!!!!!scrib nik 04 Jun 2010
Wow, what a rare shot!Gerry Nijhuis 26 Apr 2010
this is a very funny weird picture!Mark Adams 28 Dec 2009
What a fascinating picture!Ruth Williamson 10 Dec 2009
Is that a real fish...This is hilarious yet troubling... the wave the fish flew in on must have been huge Awesome Photochris evans 06 Oct 2009
um so thats what happen when u give flipper alot of caffeine and tell him to jump. :DElton Houck 22 Sep 2009
o.k. I know that fish...Angie Lisle 24 Aug 2009
LOL! That would totally suck if it happened in real life!Jerry Harris 23 Jul 2009
I really luv this photo it made my day...Margriet de Bie 22 Feb 2009
Sharon you're right, I can't believe this. It's a very funny picture.Linda Storey 21 Feb 2009
This was a very funny story, ran in most of the daily's and is still funny now.Chloe Jones 21 Jan 2009
I'd hate to havee a giiant sharkk crashing through my roof!!Randy McCullough 26 Nov 2008
Talk about a fish out of water! Interesting place.wayne french 24 Nov 2008
Sharon, I told you not to pull so hard on the fishing line!!!Alan Berkman 23 Nov 2008
One of the BEST photos I've ever seen! What happens if it rains?Anonymous Guest 09 Nov 2008
This should be PSA (public service announcement) against feeding growth hormones to aquarium fish. :-) Nice work!Armando Salas 08 Nov 2008
Looks like one of my devilish cartoons. LOL! :_)Rebecca Heaton 08 Nov 2008
This is awesome! Just out of curiosity, is the fish really supposed to be there like that? That's pretty wild. lolPat Abbott 06 Nov 2008
Lol, this is a great capture!Madeleine Weber 01 Nov 2008
is that art or an accidient of the local historical museum? :DTabitha Borges 25 Oct 2008
wow how did a shark get there..great piece.John Graham Inkson 01 Oct 2008
You should have rung the bell and had afternoon tea with us. lol.HENRY VANDERJAGT 30 Sep 2008
this is coolMichael Duhaime 30 Sep 2008
This one is great!!!rosmery Robertson 27 Sep 2008
I CAN'T BELIEVE NICE CAPTURE, SHARONMatt Holton 24 Sep 2008
I wonder what it is like to live there.Debbie Ritter 21 Sep 2008
This is hilarious!!!connor maguire 21 Sep 2008
hi sharon class foto.something i can sai have never seen before.thanks for the comments cheers connorMark Karvon 12 Sep 2008
It doesn't look like it is meant to be there. I wonder how on Earth it ended up through the roof like that. Nice find!george martinez 01 Sep 2008
great idea the fish on the roof sharon, good shot...Dianna Newby 30 Aug 2008
you can easily see the line connected to the fisherman when he flung the fish out of the water into the roor. heheheSonya Walker 29 Aug 2008
How awesome Sharon!!!!! It made my heart jump.Art 4U 27 Aug 2008
Sharon; I was standing in exactly the same spot as you were, only last week..Unfortunately there are repairs being carried out on the roof .. the Shark is still there !!!.. Best wishes.. Keith (Art4U)Sharon Lee 26 Aug 2008
I so love this fish in the building! How did it come about?Sigridur Bachmann 26 Aug 2008
Somehow I recognize this photo I think it got to do with saving the whales,but in Iceland we (used) to fish whales. Great photo Sharon and very very funny.!!!julie Barnett 25 Aug 2008
stunning and makes me smile! thanks for your comments on my picslaurie vakil 13 Aug 2008
great shot!!Natalia Ivanova 12 Aug 2008
wow! such original and funny!*)))Loni Saucier 12 Aug 2008
love the humor in this one haha.....makes me wana get a fish for my flat heheSheryl Boivin 11 Aug 2008
this one KILLS me..lol...I thought it was a SPOOF! lol...Stephanie Mason 09 Aug 2008
very cool!! sharks are awesome and whoever lives there is so lucky to have one in their roof!!Erica Broadbent 02 Aug 2008
This is my favorite photo so far! I love it!ELENNE BOOTHE 29 Jul 2008
This is so amazing, Wow!! I had to laugh. awesome shot my friend.heliopo Heliopo 28 Jul 2008
thats funny ! ;o)de maulana 24 Jul 2008
I think, you very sensitive shooter, my suggestion make item of postcard etc, as souvenir, and selling with approach of and a make message with designing interesting. how ?John Enright 22 Jul 2008
now that is funny. you have good work here sharon.Nancy Careau 20 Jul 2008
lol! sooo cool...so what is the story on this shark?Paul McCullen 19 Jul 2008
Ah, the Headington Shark. Its about 10 miles from where I live, and is 100% genuine. Its been there for over 21 years, and was commissioned by Bill Heine (an American).George Wallis 18 Jul 2008
too coolMisty Hunnewell 16 Jul 2008
hehe thats really amusing,Tania Long 15 Jul 2008
Hi. I always wondered where this shark was, remember seeing it in the newspapers at the time. And how it got up there!karen Salley'Rice 12 Jul 2008
something is definitely "fishy" about this photo! thank you for your comments on my work! cool photo.Di Lewis 11 Jul 2008
this is so funny. Great job. I dont know how it was done.Neil lecy 11 Jul 2008
Ok, if this happened at my job I maybe could get the day off.. :-) Great Photo!Andrea Latina 09 Jul 2008
poor shark! o.OHedda Koenig 09 Jul 2008
what that???? Verry fanny ..:-))))joseph wilson 08 Jul 2008
awesome photo, this is just mind blowing.Jerónimo Rocha 08 Jul 2008
bad luck...Carolina Casanova 08 Jul 2008
Is this real or a fake?? O_o It's incredible, but very funny, hahaha!Michele Feinberg 08 Jul 2008
Love your choice of subject. Shows a good eye and great sense of humor. Michele FeinbergFrederick Murphy 08 Jul 2008
Hello Sharon. This is a very unique and interesting photo. Lovely work.Okko W 08 Jul 2008
wouuww, nice pics..!!! I can't imagine that...Adarsh Kumar Pavani 07 Jul 2008
As you had mentioned this pics is really coolStacey Geyer 04 Jul 2008
Wow, you get to visit some really cool places!Luis Lopes 04 Jul 2008
So... what hapened there?Rolando Bowen 02 Jul 2008
a fishermans nightmare coolKirk Larsen 30 Jun 2008
don't you hate when that happens...Lyndsey Colgan 29 Jun 2008
This is brilliant! Some swimmer eh?!Randy Kroll 28 Jun 2008
That's hilarious! Great picture Sharon!Ana Berry 27 Jun 2008
??Please tell me this was a prank!! The thought of Flying Great White Sharks scare me!!joel zelikovitz 25 Jun 2008
Great shot. I'd like to see the inside too!carole joyce 24 Jun 2008
I had to click on this one! thought it was a plane at first!Lior Goldenberg 23 Jun 2008
WOW!donald penwell 22 Jun 2008
a very interesting and makes you wonder photo thanks for sharingTracy L Nicholson 22 Jun 2008
What a find!! I didn't sharks could fly. lol Great shot!! Did you really just happen across this?? :)Elandria of Tenerife 21 Jun 2008
That's funny.Roy Boobyer 21 Jun 2008
Your having us on!! What a pic. Love it Sharon:-)))Aunita Tyler 20 Jun 2008
LMAO!!!! What a GREAT PIC!!! Thanks for sharing it :)kate maher 20 Jun 2008
ha ha ha !! bless what a sight; talk about expect the unexpected!!Gavin North 17 Jun 2008
Don't you just hate when your sitting down to dinner and a unexpected shark drops in LOL, This is one of those shots, if you didn't see it for your self you never would have believed it, Excellent and very interesting capture Sharon. I would love to know the story behind it?Mona van der Veen 17 Jun 2008
great! verry funny shotChas Sinklier 17 Jun 2008
Ha!! Somebody's gotta fishing tale to tell - whattahoot!! ~:0)Sylvester Marshall 17 Jun 2008
Whoa! lol! Thanks a lot for sharing this pic with us!Richard Delay Sirs 17 Jun 2008
..someone with a creative sense of humuor..Nice shotEvelyn Simon 16 Jun 2008
Um, the shark maybe should have veered more to the right, than to the left, to the left! LOL! Thanks for the laugh. Oh, if this really happened then I hope no one got hurt.James Mobius 16 Jun 2008
I'd heard about this, the neighbours complained of course, no imagination at all... I'd love a shark jammed in my roof!jaime cusano 16 Jun 2008
lol, this is great!!!!!!!!!!!!Cathy Jones 16 Jun 2008
land shark!!! great photo- love to hear the story behind it!erick cervantes 15 Jun 2008
Haahhaha yes I had seen this image before. Can you explain it. lol Very cool.Susan Cherry 14 Jun 2008
Sharon, great photo!! OMG! just proves my theory that one does not have to go surfing to get bit by a great white shark.....I knew it all along.....hugs-SuziAnne Dubois 14 Jun 2008
Oh my hehehe....we have a resturant here where the shark is jumping out of the roof....this is kewl!!! Annetinsu kasai 14 Jun 2008
This one puts a smile on me:) Very nice and uniquechristopher yap 13 Jun 2008
cool and funny i dont how it end up there.rosanne mattheson 12 Jun 2008
Wow amazing!gregg dutcher 12 Jun 2008
LOL,...this is a great photo,...hehehe!!!!!Ron DeMore 11 Jun 2008
Thats A Cool Shot!Mrs.David Jobes(Dee) Jobes 08 Jun 2008
Wow!!!This is an amazing capture!!!Excellent camera work,my Friend!!!Piero Lucia 08 Jun 2008
This is really funny, I love it! Now we can say "it rains cants and dogs... and sharks"John Cudworth 07 Jun 2008
is that an artificial fish, or a real one? did you find out how it got there? That's neat.Tahnja Wolter 07 Jun 2008
rofl, oh man that's funny!Kathryn Lewis 07 Jun 2008
Wow very funny. That's some ariel!Roger Seawright 07 Jun 2008
what can you say? From Land Shark to Air Shark.Dennis Salvatier 06 Jun 2008
Very cool!don quackenbush 06 Jun 2008
Now that is a Flying fish i would say.John Swift 06 Jun 2008
WOW! Sharon! I have heard of it raining fish but never any of that size. Glad I didn't live in that flat!Kelly Six 06 Jun 2008
This picture made me laugh this morning. It made my day. Thanks.janelle williams 06 Jun 2008
i love sharks this is new to me i love itMarika Antal 06 Jun 2008
My goodness!!! What happened here?? good shot!!!Minnie Shuler 05 Jun 2008
This must be Captain Ahab's retirement village. Naw...you're right...it can't be real.Jennifer Wunderlin 05 Jun 2008
huh, you just don,t see that every day. Nice work!Marcos Pinto 05 Jun 2008
Oh my...Michele Turney 05 Jun 2008
Love this one! Very unusual............AVE HURLEY 05 Jun 2008
Wow , I saw this on TV several years ago` and to think of what it must be like in person!! You took a very good shot of this! Makes one wonder what the idea was behind this fish tale ~ :)Steve Farr 04 Jun 2008
Hey, you were right, Sharon!! This is a stunner!! Awesome imagery!!! I Luv it!!! Take care!! ~SCeleste Smith 04 Jun 2008
HAHAHAHA !!! WHAT A GREAT FIND SHARON !!Robert Cobb 04 Jun 2008
Oh my goodness...how wonderfully bizzzare!! great capture Sharon.Bartok Aranka 04 Jun 2008
HI ! I love all Your photo art. ArankaChris Thames 04 Jun 2008
is this for real? its really unusual... Captures your attention and makes you wanna know more of the storyvincent smart 04 Jun 2008
I thought it was a photoshop pic at first. I'll bet it was a shock having a shark coming thru the roof while they we're taking a bath..lol GREAT SHOTMarkus Radtke 04 Jun 2008
Hmm yes, beautifully surreal!Vivian Gutierrez 04 Jun 2008
great shot....Anonymous Guest 04 Jun 2008
lol, this is something to write home about - bet it made you take a second look:_ Great picalessandro alex 04 Jun 2008
really cool!!Barbara Keith 03 Jun 2008
Well now.. that's a novel way to fix your roof!Wes Blanton 03 Jun 2008
Cool shot SharonJanet Gioffre Harrington 03 Jun 2008
that's gonna smell RANK! GREAT shot. made me smile!Tim Conroy 03 Jun 2008
What happened? Awesome.Ruth Kauffman 03 Jun 2008
Hilarious!!! :):)Brenda Loveless 03 Jun 2008
wow....seeing is not always believing!! great catch :)mel taylor 03 Jun 2008
Really cool! I'll bet the roof leaks, tho'! melAnonymous Guest 03 Jun 2008
I remember when this made the news....excellent shot of it...lillianhibiscus 03 Jun 2008
wow! some shot!Gabrielle Stahlie 03 Jun 2008
A funny scene and a great chance for making a very special photo Sharon!esther baltisberger 03 Jun 2008
OOps is this real....What a snapsot great!!!Nira Dabush 03 Jun 2008
Quite UNUSUAL... SUPER, SHARON!Seth Weaver 03 Jun 2008
Cool and great capture, Sharon. Hilarious!!!Warren Ballard 03 Jun 2008
I think I caught that one, yeah, I did.Sandra McClure 03 Jun 2008
wow unusual capture. You have a true fish story lolMaigan Shaw 03 Jun 2008
hahahaha!!!! this ones so funny! I love it!Cathy Savels 03 Jun 2008
I lived not very far from this house. The trouble it caused!!! The planners went besurk! lolron sargent 03 Jun 2008
betcha got a good laugh out of this pic.I would have never been able to believe this either!ron sargent 03 Jun 2008
betcha got a good laugh out of this pic.I would have never been able to believe this either!ron sargent 03 Jun 2008
betcha got a good laugh out of this pic.I would have never been able to believe this either!ron sargent 03 Jun 2008
betcha got a good laugh out of this pic.I would have never been able to believe this either!Tami Dykes 03 Jun 2008
ha,ha,ha!! This is great!Matt Falk 03 Jun 2008
hey this is awesomeSarah Lindley 03 Jun 2008
funny. lolAnonymous Guest 03 Jun 2008
lol this one excited my grandaughter a true fish tailmichael falk 03 Jun 2008
wow i like the fish. coolMary Janosik 03 Jun 2008
Whoa!! Awesome home addition!! Cool shot!!Alberto D'Assumpcao 03 Jun 2008
I don't believe that!!! Flying fish??? Great, Sharon!!!gerry logan 03 Jun 2008
What a funny find. Believe it or not..... is it real or is it not what a grand shot I love it I bet they get alot of people checking this out such a grand find thank you so very much for sharing with AWjamie winter 03 Jun 2008
fantastic image Sharon just awesome!!!!!Joke Schotting 03 Jun 2008
GREAT IMAGE SHARON!!Annette Labedzki 03 Jun 2008
pardon me?Michael Germann 03 Jun 2008
some thing fishy going on hereValarie Connell 03 Jun 2008
Awesome photo!!! Either someone has a wonderful imagination/humor or some helicopter lost its load.... or sharks are jumping out of the ocean now, guess the water is getting to hot for them...and they say global warming is not happening. Try to tell the person who has a shark in the roof that. :) Now I have a new thing to ponder this morning! :)Julie Mayser 03 Jun 2008
Very astonishing, Sharon! Did you ever find out the whys and wherefores of this peculiar situation?Teresa Dominici 03 Jun 2008
Great capture Sharon, I wonder why they had a fish on top of the roof, maybe they like fish a lot.Donald Schrier 03 Jun 2008
I did not know they had Sailfish in London, just goes to show what I know. That is a great shot.Emily Reed 03 Jun 2008
So amusing and very funny!!!Mary Ashton 03 Jun 2008
Their's something fishy going on here. Yes nice one Sharon!Frank Maguire 03 Jun 2008
He was lookin' for a home. Nice one Sharon.Chris Suckow 03 Jun 2008
WOW!! guess he was real hungry looking for some dinner in the kitchen huh.. lolDenny Gholson 03 Jun 2008
Ha, Ha, Super Sharon ! Unique !Federica Bentivoglio 03 Jun 2008
is it real house??? great capture!Jan Jacob Mekes 03 Jun 2008
Haha, wow, that's... well... I have no words for it. :)Anneke Hut 03 Jun 2008
Hahaha this is with right a flying fish!!Tim Goodwin 03 Jun 2008
Now...that's something you definitely don't see every day. I wonder who was piloting the fish...?MJ Mitchell 03 Jun 2008
LOL - what a great capture!Andrew Dragh 03 Jun 2008
Only in England! ... Cool!Barry Huyett 03 Jun 2008
K00L...have a whale of daY!Jacki Bowler 03 Jun 2008
I used to live near this house in Headington...............this brings back so many memories............thanks for showing this :o))Aqua1955 03 Jun 2008
Was his own tub to small? great image!!