Wedding Photo Shoot - A Day To Remember

Captured moments from the major quake in Si Chuan

It was a day to remember…

Their Wedding shoot.

At the famous 100-year-old Church of the Annunciation in Pengzhou, China.

Morning May 12, photographer Wang went about preparing to shoot

wedding pictures for a young couple, this was the test shot before the shoot…

Pengzhou is located in the Sichuan province.  It was morning May 12, 2008.

And then it happened…. the earth quake! 7.8 on the Richter scale.

Bricks fall from the building during the earthquake, which turned Wang from a
wedding photographer into a journalist.

‘Thank God we were only shooting from outside the church!’ remarked a helper.

The stunned couple huddles together at the church ground during initial tremors.

‘I shouted to people, ‘Run! Run!” said photographer Wang Qiang.
‘The ground shook and we couldn’t see anything in the dust.’

As the dust began to clear, the true extent of damage was only beginning to appear…

A cracked facade was all that remained of the 100-year-old Church of the
Annunciation after the quake. Most of the church ‘collapsed in 10 seconds,’ said Wang,
who lives in Chengdu, capital of hard-hit Sichuan province.

No one Harmed at the location