Woman missing after tumbling into Quebec waterfall during her wedding photo sho

[easyrider]

RAWDON, Que. — A woman who was being photographed in her wedding dress has plunged into a waterfall and hasn’t been found yet.
A rescue team is looking for the woman at Dorwin Falls in Rawdon, Que.
She had chosen the site as the backdrop for her wedding pictures.
During the photo shoot, around 2 p.m. today, she lost her footing on some rocks and fell into the water.
The rescue team including firefighters and provincial police are still looking for her. (Canadian Press news agency)

[KM-25]

That is just.....beyond sad...

[raid]

This is very sad indeed. Her groom must feel very bad.

[Nikkor AIS]

Brutal.

It hard to make sense of things like this..

[camperbc]

Sadly, her body (still wearing wedding dress) was found just a few minutes ago.

Glen

[GaryLH]

So sad and tragic... It has got to be a hard day for everyone involved.

Gary

[ornate_wrasse]

OMG. What a terribly sad thing to have happened on your wedding day.

Prayers to family and friends who are no doubt mourning this tragic loss.

Ellen

[Richard G]

I wouldn't be quite so hard on I Love Film. He didn't sense the tenour of this thread, sure. The distance of a shocking event and the anonymity of the internet can so easily draw some black humour. I would be sure that the tea room of the local hospital or the medical examiner's office will see some exploration of the grim irony of this tragic event.

[markwatts]

It is called humour. It is the way most of us cope with the cruel twists of life.
Whatever some may write or speak, none of us have the capacity to truly grieve for all the sadness in the World.

[reagan]

An absolute heartbreaker for everyone involved.

[kxl]

Makes you think about how fragile life really is...

[mhv]

I know the area, and while it's beautiful, people have often killed themselves there either by swimming near the falls, or doing other antics. This is just sad.

[KM-25]

My wife and I eloped in 10/2010, had the ceremony a year later. We were going to go out with some infrared 120 film and make some photographs of her in the dress in at a cool little restored silver mining town called "Ashcroft" this weekend....

.....needless to say this utterly heart wrenching story has made us postpone that decision. I guess we are just too sensitive and emphathetic like that.

No words can possibly heal those poor souls who are her loved ones those who were hospitalized with grief.....humor has no place here.

[Keith]

Quite tragic!

I had a friend years ago who lost her partner on the first day of their honeymoon in North Queensland. He dived into a river somewhere near the resort they were staying at and never surfaced ... horrifically they concluded he was taken by a croc!

[robert blu]

It's a tragedy. Yes, our life is very fragile. My prayers for the ones involved.
robert

[back alley]

that's not what i just read about it.

[back alley]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...waterfall.html

[icebear]

What a sad story ... but sorry I have to ask the only relevant question :
HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE ? Eeeh?
This includes all involved, the photographer, the assistants, the bride herself - most likely in high heels.

Just yesterday I saw a bride and groom posing for pictures at the corner of a small town park. To get a shot with the path and trees in the background one of the total of FOUR photographers jumped in the middle of the street, kneeling down between the lanes in moving traffic with a small tripod. The others shot with tele lenses (and flash mounted on top bouncing upwards - outside).
Sometimes common sense seems strangely rare.
Why are you risking you life for shot in your wedding dress on a rock? It's a posed picture, staged, nothing original, no emotions and finally a life lost.

Never the less, condolences to the widower, family and friends.

[cepwin]

Absolutely awful and tragic. Prayers for all those involved.

[Jamie123]

Originally Posted by icebear

Why are you risking you life for shot in your wedding dress on a rock?.

Well, that's always easy to say in hindsight but they obviously didn't think that they were in any danger. You can say that that's stupid but would you really have thought that getting your feet a bit wet is dangerous? Judging from the article it looks like the key factor here was that her wedding dress got soaked and it's safe to assume that she didn't have lots of experience when it comes to wearing a wedding dress in nature.

[daveleo]

Originally Posted by photomoof

. . . .

"She had her wedding dress on and she said, ‘take some pictures of me while I swim a little bit in the lake,’ she went in and her dress got heavy, I tried everything I could to save her,” he told the station, visibly emotional."

Sounds like she fell in and was fine, until she began swimming. Sad!

. . .

That is an unbelievably tragic scene . . .

[DNG]

This is truely tragic. I have so many mixed thoughts why a person would stand so close to a ledges edge for a photograph, where it is evident that a true danger is at hand. I truly am saddened by this, and hope the families and photographer can eventually move on the best they can.

[photomoof]

Originally Posted by DNG

This is truely tragic. I have so many mixed thoughts why a person would stand so close to a ledges edge for a photograph, where it is evident that a true danger is at hand. I truly am saddened by this, and hope the families and photographer can eventually move on the best they can.

No ledge (go back and read the thread), she drowned swimming after her dress got wet. However you are right, the photographer must feel just awful, powerless to save her.

[zauhar]

Originally Posted by Jamie123

Well, that's always easy to say in hindsight but they obviously didn't think that they were in any danger. You can say that that's stupid but would you really have thought that getting your feet a bit wet is dangerous? Judging from the article it looks like the key factor here was that her wedding dress got soaked and it's safe to assume that she didn't have lots of experience when it comes to wearing a wedding dress in nature.

YES, It takes only a moment of inattention - for any of us - and tragedy can ensue. That's why it's called an accident. She surely started out in shallow water, and no one imagined what might happen.

Reminds me of the image of Ophelia floating in her dress to her doom. Very sad.

Randy

[Turtle]

An awful tragedy.

I realise the offending 'black humour' comment has been removed but it reminds me of how little empathy an embassy representative showed for a friend's black humour when discussing colleagues killed in a plane crash. The officials were horrified at some of the seemingly cold comments my friend made, but they failed to recognise that he had spent several days looking over his own friends' body parts in the morgue and sifting through their shredded personal effects.... he'd been there trying to find out information and make progress, while they sat behind desks.

Black humour is OK in my book, even when clumsy and inappropriate. It just comes out and, while superficially 'bad' sometimes, is the product of not being able to connect, or deliberately disconnecting, from awful events. After that plane crash I remember lots of people who b1tched about how everyone else was handling things, saying, or doing but who themselves failed to lift a finger and do anything useful.