Friday, January 17, 2020

Photographer shares dramatic photos of Filipino couple's wedding amidst Taal volcano eruption

Source Website: https://www.asiaone.com/lifestyle/photographer-shares-dramatic-photos-filipino-couples-wedding-amidst-taal-volcano-eruption
By Melissa Goh, melissagoh@asiaone.com, AsiaOne, 14 January 2020


Filipino couple Chino Vaflor and Kat Bautista Palomar had already booked the Savanna Farm by Solange in the town of Alfonso, Cavite, which is a mere 16km from the active volcano.
PHOTO: Filipino couple Chino Vaflor and Kat Bautista Palomar had already booked the Savanna Farm by Solange in the town of Alfonso, Cavite, which is a mere 16km from the active volcano.
PHOTO: Facebook/Randolf Evan Photography
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Thousands in the Philippines fled as far as they could from the Taal volcano eruption on Sunday (Jan 12), but one couple did not let it interrupt them from getting married.

Filipino couple Chino Vaflor and Kat Bautista Palomar had already booked the Savanna Farm by Solange in the town of Alfonso, Cavite, which is a mere 16km from the active volcano.

It was about 2pm when photographer Randolf Evan was taking photos of the wedding preparation that they started noticing unusual activity from the Taal volcano, Channel NewsAsia reported.


An ash plume from the Taal volcano which erupted over the weekend in the Philippines.
PHOTO: An ash plume from the Taal volcano which erupted over the weekend in the Philippines. Taal volcano, located just 45 miles south of the Philippine capital Manila, emitted a huge plume of ash on Sunday
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A map showing the location of the volcano, which is situated on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'
PHOTO: A map showing the location of the volcano, which is situated on the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'
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But that didn't deter them from carrying on with the ceremony, amidst white smoke and ash spews. The wedding team kept constant monitoring of the volcanic activity via social media and discussed the measures to take in a worst-case scenario.



Posted by Randolf Evan Photography on 13 January 2020 at 10:32 AM
https://www.facebook.com/randolfevanphotography/photos/a.190435824367437/2733509883393339/?type=3
 

Chino Vaflor and Kat Bautista Palomar's wedding preparation that they noticed unusual activity from the Taal volcano.
PHOTO: Chino Vaflor and Kat Bautista Palomar's wedding preparation that they noticed unusual activity from the Taal volcano.
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It also helped that the wedding venue was on higher ground and Evan felt they were safe from the volcanic activity, except for the light rain of ash. 

"Surprisingly everyone was calm and relaxed. It was an intimate wedding so guests were mostly the couple's family and close friends, and thus nobody really left", said Evan to BBC.

In the photos shared by Evan on Facebook, the couple can be seen smilingly happily. The wedding reception held under a marquee showed guests enjoying the celebrations, which was juxtaposed against the sky filled with thick smoke and flashes of lightning, creating a series of stunning and dramatic photos.


The sky filled with thick smoke and flashes of lightning, creating a series of stunning and dramatic photos.
PHOTO: The sky filled with thick smoke and flashes of lightning, creating a series of stunning and dramatic photos. The wedding reception held under a marquee showed guests enjoying the celebrations.
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When contacted by AsiaOne, Evan said: "When it (the ashes turning mud-like) came, the reception was already almost over".

Said Evan: "I still haven't processed it completely at this point. But I'm just grateful to have experienced such a unique, and one of a kind moment in my photography career".

It'll definitely be a wedding to remember, and the extraordinary photos have been garnering eyeballs on the internet.

It isn't the first time that people have made use of erupting volcanos as backdrops for one-of-a-kind photos, but we do advise taking necessary precautions and staying safe in the midst of a natural disaster.
Chino and Kat Vaflor tied the knot on Sunday, just 10 miles away from the Taal volcano, which erupted that same day.
PHOTO: Chino and Kat Vaflor tied the knot on Sunday, just 10 miles away from the Taal volcano, which erupted that same day.
Wedding photographer Randolf Evan captured a stunning portrait of the couple standing together at the altar as massive plumes of smoke swirl in the background behind them.
“Chino & Kat still made it! 🙏🏻,” Evan wrote on Facebook.

"For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands." (2 Corinthians 5:1).
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By Melissa Goh, melissagoh@asiaone.com, AsiaOne, 14 January 2020



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