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That's an interesting way to look at it, but your reasoning is incorrect. You need to think of the inertial reference frame that you are in. In that frame, that photon is still moving at the speed of light (assuming spherical chickens in a vacuum) relative to you. P.S. Google "spherical chickens in a vacuum" for a funny physics joke.
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You've described a system where the photon has a zero velocity component toward or away from you (the radial component). The tangential component (across your line of sight) is still the speed of light. So no laws of physics are violated.
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