Do you know anyone who may have gotten engaged at Balboa Park on Sunday, Dec. 18, between 5 and 7 p.m.? A local photographer has posted the photo on Reddit in hopes of identifying the couple and sharing his image with them.

Update: Mystery couple in Balboa Park photo found ... but there's a twist

Seemanta Dutta, a San Diego-based photographer who goes by the Reddit user name “asedatemutant,” said he snapped the photo at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion — a well-known San Diego spot for engagements and weddings — because he wanted to capture the bright yellow lights that evening.

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At the time, he says he didn’t realize what he had captured.

“I only realized after coming back that I had captured a photo of their proposal. I have no way of sharing this photo with them,” Dutta wrote on his Reddit thread.

Of course, he sought the internet’s help to find the couple. He posted the photo on Reddit and Instagram around 4 a.m. Tuesday and within a few hours it captured San Diego’s curiosity: Who is the couple in the photo?

Full disclosure: In the thread, Dutta admits that the photo is digitally altered— he takes photo as a hobby and at the time he was using a Canon 6D with a 16-35mm F/4L lens. In his editing process, he digitally edited the photo to remove the couple’s own photographer in the shot, he said.

That didn’t seem to matter to other Reddit users who jumped on the thread to try to help. Some offered suggestions to help locate the couple.

DaisyDomergue said: “Submit it to one of the news stations or nextdoor.com. I'm sure this couple would love to have it, this is amazing!”

DanFForbes said: “You have to find the people in this picture...what an amazing shot! They will love you forever. Submitting it to the news stations is a wonderful idea! They'll pick that s--- up like candy.”

Others offered a range of narratives for the photo.

MoistDef said: “Would be funny if he was just tieing [SIC] his shoe.”

Givemeallyourtacos said: “Yes, I believe it's Shadow People. They can only be seen by staying up for more than 2 days if I'm not mistaken.”

The search continues. Dutta says that he really hopes to find the couple, but if he doesn’t he says it gives him “little consolation that the couple does indeed have SOME photos of their engagement.”

Do you have some clue who is in this photo? Is it you? Shoot me an email or reply on the Reddit thread if you have some clues. Let’s solve this mystery, San Diego!

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