Monday, January 23, 2012

4th week of my 52 week project....

What a way to start off my week!   I absolutely love newborns.  I had the honor to photograph a newborn yesterday.  There is nothing better than a new baby.

Here is my favorite image from that session.




Enjoy your week!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Week THREE!

I LOVE newborns......even if they don't sleep at all during the session.....they are so cute!    Here is my week three photo......




Such cute little fingers and faces!   :)   This tiny little girl was wide eyed and ready for action....I bet she would have done that chin pose I have been trying to get if she would have just slept for a bit.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Week TWO

Week two we finished with all her treatments!   Then tried to get back to normal....


But things didn't get back to normal right away........A stomach bug took over our house for 4 days.  But everyone is now better and in a few days I have a newborn photo session.  :)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

52 photos project......

I did the 365 project for 2 years in a row but took last year off.  It was a huge challenge...both years I did self portraits and I tried to do themes every week or month depending on the month and my ideas.  This year I knew I couldn't pull another 365 project, but wanted to do a photo project.  I saw a few other photographer friends post about 52 week project where we post one photo a week and thought to myself  "I can do that"  So here I am!



 I wanted to sum my 1st week up with this cell phone picture of my daughter's x-ray.  She has been sick since December 31st.  We took her to the doctor on January 3rd when things took a bad turn with her, she became lethargic and it scared us.

 Some people might know the struggles I had at the end of my pregnancy with her but for those who don't here it is:  I slipped and fell onto my belly at my work when I was almost 6 months pregnant with her.   The ambulance was called everything seemed fine they sent me home with my husband but the next morning after my husband went to work I went into labor.  I cried because she was my baby and my little girl, I had two boys before her and I so wanted that little girl.   After 48 hour stay, or almost 48 hours, at the hospital they got the labor to stop and sent me home on bed rest.   I did everything I could to stay in that bed, when my husband wasn't there my mom was.  We managed to keep her in my womb until a week before my due date.  So when she became lethargic I started to remember those scary days back then.  I cried when the Doctor told me she has Pneumonia.   This was my little girl  that I tried so hard to keep healthy inside me and now she was so sick she didn't even have energy to watch TV or color for more than 10 minutes before she would fall asleep.  I felt helpless and scared....I still do because she isn't 100% yet.  She is awake most of the day now but still has no energy to play and doesn't eat much, but the best thing is she is home and out of the hospital with the doctor saying it could be another 5-10 days until she is completely back to normal.  She has her breathing treatments every 4 hours, which she hates because they make her cough,  We keep telling her it is a good thing to cough because it clears out her lungs, but she is six and doesn't want to hear that, she just wants to be magically better so she can go back to school.   We all want that. 

So here it was, my first post for my 52 week project.   I hope that next week is a better one.

Olivia Jean Williams