Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/26/01 1:38 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > From: "Kyle Cassidy" <cassidy@netaxs.com> > >>>>>>> believe me, your kid does not need events like this photographed. and >> neither does your wife. hold her hand and give her some encouragement and >> cut the umbillical cord if you have to, but don't photograph it. some >> things are better left a private mystery.<<<<<<<<< > > Hi Kyle, > > This is utter tripe and take it from a guy who has shot roughly 200 > birthings and all the pictures are family oriented and not likely the "in > your face crotch" images on the movie reel you experienced as a student! Ted said a lot of true things and I will only add one! I did/didn't photograph my son's birth. He was an elective caesarian so my wife never went into labour. I photographed the long wait for theatre time, which was very tense, and I took a camera into the OR, but during the actual hacking and slashing part I was there for handholding purposes only. However, once the critter was out and my wife was being sewn up, I took a lot of pictures of him because SHE COULDN'T SEE HIM. If I hadn't done that my wife would have had no idea what he looked like in the first few minutes after birth. It's very easy for mums who have C-sections to feel like they missed out, so in these situations a camera is a great thing. If I had tried to photograph the C-section itself, I would have fainted. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com