Photographing the birth of a baby

[Gina]

Hi all,

Yesterday I had the honour of being present at the birth of my sister's 7th child. It was a car ride at 0200 houes of Tuesday morning to the labour ward of our local hospital.

I won't go into more detail now as I'm very tired and very busy. It was a very emotional and fast moving experience but needless to say, mother and baby boy doing very well at home.

[jojo]

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Wow, that's one fresh baby - and he doesn't look all gooed up either! Thanks for sharing these with us Gina. Congrats to mum & dad too!

jo

[Autumn]

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Many congratulations Gina on a wonderful set of photographs. You must be very pleased with yourself.

It can't be very easy to be concentrating on getting a good image whilst being emotionally involved with your sister. I think that you have done an incredibly good job.

You certainly have a good eye for people and portraits.

[roentarre]

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The photographs have such a lively look to them all. You have captured the best memory in someone's life!

[Ian]

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I may have mentioned this anecdote before... my older daughter was born in 1996 and I photographed the birth with my trusty old Olympus Mju film compact.

In 1998 our second daughter was born and I used a one megapixel Agfa digital camera... so Elizabeth is my analogue baby and Lara is my digital baby

A few months after Elizabeth was born I also upgraded our old analogue camcorder to a digital one and the difference in the vibrancy and sharpness was just phenomenal!

Ian

[Julia]

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Lovely photos - I especially like the black & white one.

And Wow seven children - I have trouble with two

[Caz]

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That's a beautiful series Gina, I particularly liked the First Kiss

[mib2]

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Hi Gina

Thanks for sharing.

DaveR