[Leica] PAM (photo a month)...for good reason

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Great project, Lea...But I have one question....45 weeks? 48 Weeks? Was
this the longest human pregnancy on record? :-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Barbour
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:17 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] PAM (photo a month)...for good reason




lea wrote:

> Last April my little and only sister told me she and her husband were 
> expecting (their first) and I asked if I might chronicle her pregnancy

> via photographs. She was delighted and we got down to business.
> 
> Two days after telling me, Shannon and Jason came to my studio and we 
> began photographing. I shot my sister every month up until 45 weeks

how long was this pregnancy ??   :-)
  then
> I began photographing her every week until she delivered...she went 2 
> weeks over (poor dear). This work was done entirely with my Leica  in 
> black and white (except for December which they requested to have in 
> color so I used digital) in an assortment of places...the studio, the 
> baby's nursery, their home, outside...wherever the mood struck us to 
> go. Four of the sessions included Jason, the bulk of them did not. 
> Some of the work was nude, most was not. It is an amazing journal of 
> her growth and body change ending in the arrival of Rachel Diane.
> 
> To see a small sample of the images from this series click here... 
> http://www.whinydogpress.com/familyi.html
> The first shot was taken 2 days after they found out she was pregnant 
> The second shot was taken at 48 weeks

nope...please recalculate....it just seemed that long.

> The third shot was taken when Rachel was 5 days old.
> 

these  three make a wonderful series....

Steve
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