So our second son, Elliott James Keating, was born on the 9th February 2012, the gallery below shows a selection of the images from the very first day of his life, taken by Daddy with a Canon 5D MkII and his iPhone 4.
Elliott’s First Day
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Layla and Ben meet Santa
So, yesterday Ben got to meet Santa (in the guise of a bearded Welsh chap, real beard, actually Welsh) at a local playgroup near to his Great Nans.
Layla was happy to meet Santa and rewarded everyone with a huge cheery smile, Ben was less pleased. He did me proud (this is not sarcasm), Santa was a strange man who smelt of smoke and Ben was not impressed by that and tried to refuse the present. I am truly glad that he wasn’t lured in…
The present was chocolate (inner sigh) which is at least better than some age inappropriate toy or cheap geegaw that would be broken in a few minutes. Since we have yet to introduce Ben to chocolate his mother has gleefully pawned (to mean owned) them.
Images below:
Layla smiles for Santa
A totally un-chipper Ben
More smiles from Layla
Ben pushes the wierdly dressed and smoky-breathed man's gifts away,m he isn't fooled that easily...
and a gallery of images taken on the day as well:
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- Layla smiles for Santa
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- More smiles from Layla
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- A totally un-chipper Ben
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- Ben pushes the wierdly dressed and smoky-breathed man’s gifts away,m he isn’t fooled that easily…
Ben’s Xmas Drawing
This year Benjamin has shown an interesting prescience and drawn an xmas tree. Well, he did a drawing and we think it looked a lot like an xmas tree and it is being used in all of the Christmas cards that we are handmaking this year (a limited run of 29) for various family and friends. Other cards will be sent but we only make a short run of cards (it is a slow process). I will post a picture of the cards at a later date, but for now here is Ben’s picture.
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The header images used on this site are all from a selection taken with a mobile phone. They are meant to illustrate elements from our day to day life and I like the grainy look and feel and random nature of the choices.
My markkeating.me.uk site has far nicer header images in terms of quality as they were taken with a higher performance camera and lens but that wasn’t what i wanted to achieve with the header on this site.