Yahoo News Photographer of viral royal wedding photo explains exactly how he took it
As soon as Meghan Markle stepped out of her car on Saturday afternoon, the world was completely enamoured by the now-Duchess of Sussex.
While the ceremony and procession were over in an hour and a half, we spent the rest of the weekend fawning over all of the stunning pictures of the newlyweds.
However there was one picture that caught our – and the world's – attention more than others.
Staff photographer for the Press Assosciation, Yui Mok took a photo of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their carriage from above, looking straight down on the pair.
We can see Meghan’s bouquet resting on her lap, the couple holding hands and looking out to the crowd.
It first came to the world’s attention when it was tweeted with the caption, “I don’t know who took this picture but it’s exquisite”. This was ‘liked’ 82,000 times.
Thanks, glad you like the photo. It was taken by myself, and I'm a staff photographer for @PA based in the UK. I was positioned on the roof of George IV Gateway of Windsor Castle, and they passed directly beneath me during their carriage procession. https://t.co/hkzViNhSbb
— Yui Mok (@YuiMok) May 19, 2018
Mok saw this tweet and replied with: “Thanks, glad you like the photo. It was taken by myself, and I'm a staff photographer for @PA based in the UK. I was positioned on the roof of George IV Gateway of Windsor Castle, and they passed directly beneath me during their carriage procession.
“I should also add a big thanks to the @PA picture desk, who crop and tidy up the raw images that we send to them directly from our cameras on big jobs like this, before they are issued to the wider world. They tend to be unsung, whilst photographers end up grabbing all the glory.”
I should also add a big thanks to the @PA picture desk, who crop and tidy up the raw images that we send to them directly from our cameras on big jobs like this, before they are issued to the wider world. They tend to be unsung, whilst photographers end up grabbing all the glory.
— Yui Mok (@YuiMok) May 19, 2018
Mok explained in more detail which camera he used for the shot and how his photo was shared with a number of different agencies. He continued: “For that shot I used @CanonUKandIE 1Dx Mk2 camera and a 70-200mm lens. For other shots I had the @CanonProNetwork 600mm F4 (which is actually quite light for its size - just as well as I had to handhold it a lot of the time!) Drones would never have been allowed anywhere near.
“My position was a 'pool' position yesterday, which means @PA have to share the images I took with other agencies, out of fairness to the limited access in that spot. The photo should be available via quite a few agencies, not only @PA and RexShutterstock.”
He added that the shot was “purely coincidental” as he has a less than one-second window to take it while having to focus his camera through a metal grill.
Luckily for us, the result is an extraordinary shot of the pair that will go down in history.
