First of all this is a very personal photo because he is my baby in his birth, I will not write anything of medical conditions, my wife or my personal feelings, I will try just narrate, if I can, an objective photographic feeling about taking this event. The truth is that it is very difficult taking this picture because I was totally scared, I had been in my other two sons births and I thought I could have some experience but the event transcended me again, First I had to attend the operating room rules you have to change your cloth and leave all your things in the changing room, I left even my lens cap, I set my Camera in time priority mode to 1/200 and set my ISO to 1600 and flash off I thought I was ready.
A nurse called me and instructed me to wash my hands, but without my lens cap the water splashed all over my lens, I tried to clean my lens with the coat but it was an awful clean, but there wasn’t time I entered the operating room and my wife was there with all the crew of doctors, I took my wife´s hand and I wasn´t able to be stable with one hand and all the stress and I was trying first of all not to be intrusive. On the other side, and also comes to mind that time I think the camera helps a lot because it gives me a “scenic task” and it made me to lose some stress thinking in the situation, but personal feeling transcends everything and I forgot about the photos and just thank God everything was fine.
The second image was taken I think 15 minutes after my baby´s birth I was alone in the hospital room, alone, euphoric walking side to side of the room and I went to the window and a beautiful sun was raising behind the trees joining me in my loneliness, but the sight from that building wasn’t so beautiful, so I switched to a 100-300 lens and shot bracketed pictures for taking as much sun as I could.
Sometimes, if not always, the events are much greater than the images, but the images are great keeping these events latent.
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Photographer since 1993 also electronic engineer and actor, I was born in Mexico City in 1974 and I had traveled to different parts of Mexico seeking to discover its wonders.
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