John’s dad let him borrow his old Hasselblad camera. The following images were shot using a Hasselblad 500C with an 80mm f/2.8 lens. It was shot on a roll of B&W TMAX 400 C-41 film that expired in 1999!
A pic of John’s dad’s original Hasselblad with the original case.
34 Weeks
Well, I am no longer Prego and my belly is gone. But I thought I would post the last of the prego pics and then the Eliza posts can take over the blog. And I will not apologize for turning this blog into an Eliza fan page. I’m so in love with this little girl I can’t even begin to explain!!
All images below were shot on John’s beloved 35mm Contax RTS II camera using some expired (2006) Kodak Portra 800. And no post processing!
34 Weeks
35 Weeks
After 17 hours of labor, our precious baby girl has finally arrived. Emily is doing great and so is our baby girl. Even though I’m big fainter, I had absolutely no problems helping with the delivery and cutting the umbilical cord, it was amazing!! During the course of the entire pregnancy, we have found it difficult to come up with a name. We have batted around names for awhile now and have spent the past 23 hours trying to figure out what to call her. So after much debate and contemplation we have finally given our daughter a name. Emily and I are so proud to present to my blogging world:
Here are some images from her first 24 hours of life!!!! Hope nobody minds, but this will probably not be the last time I blog photos of Eliza. I anticipate there will be about a bajillion more photos of her during her first year.
She was born with tons and tons of thick black hair!!!!
First photo as a family
Em did amazing! Here she is with 2 minute old Eliza!!
Wow! I can’t believe we are under one month until this little girl is due! I am really starting to feel pregnant now! Last night I was on call and the trauma pager went off twice. Now it takes me a little while to get out of bed and when I do I feel like every joint in my body aches. So I was trying to get down to the emergency room as fast as I could but basically was hobbling like an old woman! I’m just grateful that the surgery team doesn’t respond to Code Blues b/c I don’t think I could take off running to the other side of the hospital! Only one more overnight call during this pregnancy!!
All shot on film using a Contax RTS II, 50mm f/1.4 Zeiss and Fuji 400H.
In case you missed the other posts:
28 Weeks (Thanksgiving)
More to come… (Once the film is developed!)
I am 35 weeks now! I can’t believe we only have about 5 weeks left. This pregnancy has gone by really fast. I’m sure it helps to be eternally busy with residency. I am so excited to meet this little girl and terrified at the same time.
Everyone has been asking if we have any names picked out and honestly we don’t. We talked about some names when we first got pregnant but haven’t revisited the subject. We definitely need to get moving on this soon. In the interim, we have been referring to the baby using names we enjoy. I’m sure I’ll offend people here but some people do not think before naming their child. Here is a list of some of our favorite names (All names listed below are real):
-Ladynasty: Could be read as lady nasty but is pronounced La-Dynasty
-Sharkina: We thought we could help our child out with her future career. This name is perfect for a future marine biologist or a Discovery Channel Shark Week producer.
-Chatonya: I’ve seen a lot of names with the prefix “La,” but this is very unique adding a “Cha” in front of names. This is a real name but imagine the possibilities if you were to add “Cha” to any number of little girl names.
-La-a: And this is the name we actually use when we refer to our daughter. I think it is my favorite. It looks like a simple name but the beauty is in the pronunciation. There is no silent punctuation in this name… you need to pronounce all the characters, including the dash. So pronunciation is: Ladasha. You know when someone named their child this they thought they were clever. However, what about scantron tests where you have to fill in the bubbles corresponding to the letters in your name… last test I took did not have the option of a dash.
This list could go on to include names I haven’t personally seen but heard from others: Damoney, Shithead (pronounced Shitheed), Gonorrhea, etc.
So, what are some of your favorite names? I would like to hear both fun and serious names because I am not naming my child La-a and that is the only name we have for right now! Oh and middle names are helpful as well!
So I am at 34 weeks and 4 days and I know this post is really late. If you want to be up to date with our happenings, I would recommend you subscribe to John’s blog (http://blog.johnsharpephotography.com). He is much better at updating.
I’ve been really busy at work. I just finished an internal medicine rotation and just started a surgery rotation last week. I’m exhausted but it’s nice to have these tough rotations while the little girl is still inside me!
John shot this session on film. From John, “For anyone wondering, these were shot on my Contax RTS II with a Zeiss 50mm lens using Fuji Professional 400h film. We even had to get the tripod out and try out the timer on my camera. I’ll say it again…I’m just loving these photos straight out of camera!!!”
27 Weeks
