Steve Vento
05-04-2007, 01:52 PM
Last year we met with the Chaplin at our local hospital to discuss NILMDTS service that we wanted to offer. That was seven months ago and just about the time I had given up on them they called last night. Oh oh, now I had to face the inventible. I called my associate Marie, to lend a helping hand and support.
The Chaplin and staff could not have been more helpful. I asked few questions of the Chaplin mainly to help us get a feel for what was ahead. As we trudged through the halls of the hospital with our trappings of gear everyone looked at us rather quizzical, what could we be up to, a hospital is not a place you would normally see soft boxes, light stands and camera gear rolling down the cold and lonely hall ways. As we approached the family’s room I made a gesture to Marie to smile. We found the room with a small hand made sign taped to the door in the shape of a tear drop. As we entered the room we found a small family sitting there with what you’d expect, looking very sad.
We realized that the young mother was holding her tiny baby in a swaddling blanket looking a bit lost in what was supposed to be a happy time for her.
As I set about the routine of setting up camera gear, lights and testing for exposure, Marie had set about to get the baby in its bassinet. I started taking pictures as the Grandmother and Marie kept adjusting the clothes and posing the infant. We took some extra images of the flowers and some of the baby’s clothes neatly folded in a satin box along with a certificate with the babies name on it. When we felt we had done what we could we packed up and left. It was a long walk back to the car chatting a little about how it went.
On the way home I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few dinner items and as I walked thru the store isles, I saw a young mother holding her new born baby and I though to my self, not everyone in this world was very happy right now.
The Chaplin and staff could not have been more helpful. I asked few questions of the Chaplin mainly to help us get a feel for what was ahead. As we trudged through the halls of the hospital with our trappings of gear everyone looked at us rather quizzical, what could we be up to, a hospital is not a place you would normally see soft boxes, light stands and camera gear rolling down the cold and lonely hall ways. As we approached the family’s room I made a gesture to Marie to smile. We found the room with a small hand made sign taped to the door in the shape of a tear drop. As we entered the room we found a small family sitting there with what you’d expect, looking very sad.
We realized that the young mother was holding her tiny baby in a swaddling blanket looking a bit lost in what was supposed to be a happy time for her.
As I set about the routine of setting up camera gear, lights and testing for exposure, Marie had set about to get the baby in its bassinet. I started taking pictures as the Grandmother and Marie kept adjusting the clothes and posing the infant. We took some extra images of the flowers and some of the baby’s clothes neatly folded in a satin box along with a certificate with the babies name on it. When we felt we had done what we could we packed up and left. It was a long walk back to the car chatting a little about how it went.
On the way home I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few dinner items and as I walked thru the store isles, I saw a young mother holding her new born baby and I though to my self, not everyone in this world was very happy right now.