Daphne Photo Shoot

Since Daphne was born I think we’ve taken a few thousand pics of her. She’ll definitely have a well documented childhood. Today we attempted to get a good shot for her birth announcement. Easier said than done.

While doing research on birth announcement photos Chris made the comment that a lot of newborn pictures really suck. Today we found out why. Since babies just don’t pose or cooperate it makes it difficult. Out of the 200 or so initial pics we took only one or two were even something that we wouldn’t delete. If we needed a picture of her yawning, frowning at us, waving her little fists right in front of her face.. then we’d have 199 to pick from. A decent shot of her looking at the camera? More elusive. Another thing working against us? Daphne’s weird body hair. Daphne, like a lot of babies born early, was covered in fine hair, or lanugo. In Daphne’s case it was the same color as the hair on her head, so if you look at her back and ears she looks like a little wolfman baby.  I had plans of putting her in a little diaper cover with an attached tutu for one shot.  From the back she looks like a little monkey, from the front you can see all the loose skin on her arms and legs (girl needs to fatten up just a bit and fill out).  So that photo idea was quickly squashed.  We’ll keep trying to get a good pic of her.  In the meantime we used this picture for her announcement.

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