A photo making the rounds on Instagram shows the top half of a humpback whale reaching above the water's surface. It's a beautiful image, but the background is getting just as much attention as the whale.

Many of us have a habit of constantly toying with our phones and that sometimes leads to missing some very rare sights going on around us.

A photo making the rounds on social media shows the top half of a humpback whale reaching above the water's surface. It's a beautiful image, but the background is getting just as much attention as the whale.

In it, a man is sitting on a sailboat and his eyes are fixated on his smartphone. What makes it so interesting and baffling is that the male was only feet away from the spot where the whale surfaced.

The shot was captured by photographer Eric Smith near Redondo Beach, California. That area is well known for whale watching.

Smith said he snapped about five pictures of whales with the same boat in the vicinity and in each image the man