Serena Project-6 months

I have been documenting Serena's first year. This project was arranged before Serena was born. I saw Serena's older siblings and I knew that she was going to have the gorgeous set of deep blue eyes. My first meeting with Serena was when she was only 3 weeks old so I did not get to see her blue eyes. When Melissa brought Serena out in her pretty blue dress, I thought I saw most beautiful baby in the whole world. Well, all babies are beautiful! but this one is special.... Don't you think?
So here is image of her with no retouching or enhancement.

Her eyes are really that big and blue

Miss Personality!

Here is Serena at 3 weeks while she was dreaming in her mommy's arm.

All she wanted was to eat and sleep as what babies supposed to do. I had to walk away with one roll of 120 film, that is 16 shots. I wanted to document her on my medium format camera, Mamiya 645 with Ilford HP5 film which I have been testing extensively in the past for my fine art work. When the film retured from the lab, I was thrilled to see this image.

I still love film, I am not denying digital but I think film captures nostalgic essence of things.