My niece, Callie Lee, was born 2 weeks ago on Sunday. Callie was born 8 weeks premature (she weighted in at only 3lbs 5.6oz and measured 16 1/2 inches long at birth), so she has been in the Minneapolis Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) since she was born, and will be in a hospital for another 4-6 weeks before she can go home, if all goes well.
As of today Callie is doing quite well and hopefully will be moving to the St. Cloud hospital soon to be closer to her mom and dad. She is amazingly cute and looks quite healthy (if you ignore the feeding tube going in her nose and all of the wires from the sensors that are connected to her).
My sister asked me to bring my camera with when I visited tonight. Getting good pictures in a NICU is not easily done without a professional camera. The unit is intentionally kept fairly dark, and the flash from a point and shot camera (pocket digital camera) tends to glare off of the glass of the isolettes (incubators). It is during times like this that I really love the low light ability of my Canon 5D camera and 24-70 2.8L lens.
I love taking pictures of babies and kids. Despite the risk of sounding sappy, I will admit it makes me feel all warm and bubbly inside. Knowing Callie and my sister are healthy and doing fine also makes me feel that way, so by the time I was done taking pictures and visiting tonight I was feeling pretty good about life.
Enough talk, here are some of my favorites. The complete listing of photos can be found on my galleries page.
