A wedding photographer was taking post-ceremony photographs on a dock in Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Arizona, when he tripped and fell into the lake, losing his camera in the process. But, thanks to a local fire department’s dive team, the couple was able to retrieve those lost images despite the camera spending several days underwater.
Photographer Anil Kanwar of Akphotographers ( @akphotographers ) was photographing groom Gunrinder Singh and bride Valeria Perez at the lake after the couple’s traditional Indian wedding ceremony. The groom said he just blinked, and the photographer had fallen off the dock, losing his camera in the water in the process.
“I was not worried about the camera, but I was worried about the images,” Kanwar said. The groom said that the photographer wanted to jump back in after the camera, but the couple didn’t want him to take that risk…