California Wildfire Wedding Photo
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California Wildfire Wedding Photo refers to a viral photograph of a bride and groom wearing masks as wildfires raged in Sonoma County, California a few miles away.
Origin
On October 27th, 2019, photographer Karna Rose posted the photo on Facebook. [1] They wrote, "Beautiful wedding at Chateau St Jean yesterday. This lovely couple flew from Chicago for their gorgeous destination in the wine country." The post received more than 650 reactions, 550 shares and 80 comments (shown below). The photograph was taken during the Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County.[2]
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The following day, the Twitter [3] account for KPIX shared the photo. The tweet received more than 15,000 likes and 5,000 retweets in two days (shown below, left). They wrote, "Viral photo of Chicago couple captures joy and sorrow of Sonoma County wedding as #KincadeFire glows in the background."
That day, the YouTube account for KPIX published a report on the photograph (shown below, right).
The photographer told ABC, "I was thinking of 'American Gothic,' the 1930's painting that was the regular, normal of American life at the time. And all of a sudden, in a very strange way, this has become our new normal of the wine country."
Several media outlets covered the photograph, including ABC,[2] Fox,[3] The Daily Dot [4]
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External References
[1] Facebook – Karna Roa's Post
[2] ABC7News – Kincade Fire: Chicago couple's smoky wedding photo at Sonoma County vineyard goes viral
[3] Twitter – @KPIXtv's Tweet
[4] The Daily Dot – Couple wears masks in wedding photos amid California wildfires
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