Clarkie's Neighbor

Here is one of Clarkie's neonatal (NICU) neighbor. I cannot remember her name or that of her mother's. I'll likely update this submission with least the infant's name next time I see her.

While my wife Rose and I were visiting Clark, she was there as well holding her daughter. I glanced over and smiled and we got off to a light conversation, being hearing impaired I try not to get into much talking. She was telling me about how her baby came out smaller than our Clark, which was surprising to know because her daughter was born least a few weeks later during the gestation than Clark.

I asked if I could take a picture which she said was ok, and the above is what resulted from the small little Olympus Pen-FT half-frame SLR. I was surprised it came out as decent as it did since the lighting was pretty much dim with the main room lights turned off ( most of the lights are from the hallway outside of the nursery and some of the small lights in the back by some of the other babies ). But least I was able to focus on her face and the result above came out nice.

I have not seen her today as I was hoping because I had an 8x10 of the above picture printed onto a sepia toned paper, I left it in one our personal drawers so that the next time Rose or I see her, we can give her the print personally, hopefully she'll appreciate it. I've made it a personal policy that if I shoot any of the other parents with their child in neonatal (with their permission of course) that I'll at the least give them a print of some of the good shots that result.

Camera: Olympus Pen-FT w- 38mm f-1.8
Exposure: (roughly remembering) 1-60th @ f-1.8
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 shot at 200
Developer: HC-110 1:50 - 68F - 6minutes
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