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A famed urban exploration photographer died last weekend after she was swept away by flash floods while taking pictures inside a Philadelphia storm drain, police and friends said. 
  
 Rebecca Bunting’s body was found Sunday near Pennsylvania’s Frankford Avenue Bridge, a day after fast-moving water dragged her away, WPVI reported. 
  
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 The 30-year-old photographer and her boyfriend were inside a storm drain just before 6 p.m. Saturday when they were knocked into the creek. 
  
 Bunting’s boyfriend managed to pull himself out of 10-feet of water and called for help. Divers arrived at the scene and frantically searched for Bunting, but with no luck. 
  
 "She was always trying to get really cool photos. She's really talented. She could bring out beauty in any landscape," Cristen DeDomenico, Bunting’s friend, told WPVI. 
  
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 Her boyfriend was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. 
  
 Bunting, who was also a bartender at Miller’s Ale House in South Philadelphia, amassed more than 12,600 followers on Instagram, posting pictures of abandoned and rare spaces that people are “not supposed” to go in. 
  
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 Friends told WPVI Bunting had just returned from a trip in Europe and moved to Philadelphia about a year ago. 
  
 Urban explorers remembered Bunting as the “queen” of the community. 
  
 “She was the bando [abandon spaces] queen,” Carly Weiss told the Philadelphia Inquirer about Bunting. “There’s no doubt about it.” 
  
 Bunting filled her Instagram with photos she took while exploring places, often run-down buildings and areas, around the world. People said she often interacted with others in the “urbex” community. In one Instagram photo, she called her camera her “tool.” 
  
 “Through it I give reason to everything around me,” she captioned the photo of her in an decrepit building. 
  
 In the last week, friends have flooded Bunting’s Facebook and Instagram pages with tributes to the daring photographer. 
  
 “She died doing what she loved with the one she loved,” a friend wrote on Facebook. ||||| How attorneys are using #MeToo to defend their clients accused of sexual assault 
  
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 Rescue crews have recovered the body of a 30-year-old woman swept away by fast-moving water Saturday evening in Pennypack Park in Northeast Philadelphia. 
  
 Philadelphia police said the marine unit made the discovery at 10 a.m. in Pennypack Creek, upstream from Frankford Avenue. 
  
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 The woman, identified by friends on Facebook as photographer Rebecca Bunting, reportedly was taking photographs in a storm drain when she was swept into the creek by a sudden rush of water.nto the water shortly before 6:45 p.m. Saturday. When she did not emerge, her boyfriend made a frantic 911 call, and police in the 15th District dispatched a marine unit to the area of Sandyford and Ryan Avenues. The area is near Sandy Run, which flows into Pennypack Creek. 
  
 The drowning is a troubling part of summer in this region of many rivers, creeks and lakes. Last weekend, two bodies from separate incidents were recovered from the Delaware River. Last month, a 12-year-old boy drowned in Burlington County’s Sylvan Lake. 
  
 Nearby residents have said Pennypack Creek is notoriously dangerous, particularly after rain. Before this incident, at least five people — ranging in age from 13 to 67 — had been found dead in Pennypack Creek since 2010, and the creek was rain-swollen in four of those cases. 
  
 Elsie Stevens, corresponding secretary with the Holme Circle Civic Association, partnered with city officials in 2014 to hold a series of school assemblies meant to educate teenagers in the area about the perils of swimming in the creek, whether it’s facing surging waters or dangerous bacteria. Stevens, 70, has lived a short walk away from Pennypack Park for 47 years — but, she warned, there’s a “dark side” to the creek. 
  
 “Pennypack can be beautiful and serene and great for pictures, but after a rainstorm, it can be deadly,” she said. “The water just rages down the creek.” ||||| PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A photographer who died while taking pictures inside a storm drain in Philadelphia is being mourned by other "urban explorers" who take photos of abandoned and hard-to-reach places. 
  
 Thirty-year-old Rebecca Bunting was swept away by the waters of a creek in the northeastern part of the city during a flash flood on Saturday. She had been taking photos with her boyfriend, who called 911 for help when she disappeared. Her body was recovered the next day. 
  
 A fellow urban explorer, Carly Weiss, tells Philly.com that Bunting was a "queen" in the community of thrill-seeking photographers. Many posted tributes on Instagram, where Bunting was known for photos of dilapidated hospitals, run-down amusement parks and other scenes of eerie emptiness. 
  
 Weiss said those photos now provide solace to many of Bunting's friends. 
  
 "We're always going to have Becca's photos and the photos we took of her," she said. "Becca is going to live forever because of this." 
  
 Among the final photos Bunting posted was an image of a sunset viewed through an archway. Alongside it she wrote: "If there is life after death, I want to come back as a sunset. Ain't much else more beautiful than that." |||||Summary:

– An urban explorer and photographer known for her images of abandoned spaces is being mourned as a "queen" of her Philadelphia community days after she died doing what she loved. Rebecca Bunting, 30, was taking photos inside a storm drain with her boyfriend Saturday when she was swept away in a flash flood, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. A sudden rush of water sent the pair into Pennypack Creek around 6pm. Her boyfriend suffered minor injuries but was able to pull himself out of the water, reports Fox News. He called 911 when Bunting didn't emerge, and authorities found her body around 10am Sunday. Area residents describe Pennypack Creek as particularly dangerous after rain, noting four of five deaths there since 2010 occurred in similar conditions. "Pennypack can be beautiful and serene and great for pictures, but after a rainstorm, it can be deadly," one woman tells the Inquirer. "The water just rages down the creek." It isn't clear if Bunting knew of the dangers, having lived in Philadelphia for about a year. "She died doing what she loved with the one she loved," a friend writes on Facebook, per Fox News. "We're always going to have Becca's photos and the photos we took of her," another friend says. The second-to-last photo Bunting posted to her Instagram account, which had some 15,000 followers, shows a sunset viewed through an archway, per the AP. "If there is life after death, I want to come back as a sunset. Ain't much else more beautiful than that," the caption reads.