It's A Boy

Technology is just amazing. I operate in an environment of high technology in the aviation industry. As my another personal business of photography, technology continues to make things as David Ziser puts it, "Faster, Better, Cheaper". Just smoke and mirrors type of stuff that would not have been thought about even ten years ago. Te medical field is no different. We have some of the most advanced medical technology known to man. Personally I attribute that to the free market system of health care. The Ultrasound has been around for some time but was not widely available when we had our three children.

Evelyn and I were out in Maryland visiting our son, daughter, and son-in-law and were privileged to be there for the Ultrasound where the gender was determined. I have to tell you the ability to view, and measure the fetus inside mom is such a cool tool. I am going to keep the little guys privacy intact and not show the money shot, but suffice it to say, it's a boy.

Here (above) the little guy is all scrunched up and was working over his fist with his mouth. I had seen many Ultrasound images before but to stand there and watch the display when that little life was active and moving around. If his activity is any sign, his muscle tone will be fine on his birthday.

Well I guess he is going to be a thumb sucker.

He must have been having a good time because one of the last shots was his "thumbs up" signal. Either that or it was on his way up to his mouth. Either way it was way cool to see the little guy.

So how does this tie into photography. Not much really but I will give you this. The images are printed out on that thermal paper that EKS and cheap store receipts use. We did not have a scanner available so it was time to dig into the camera bag for a solution.

What I came up with was an EF 50 f/1.4 lens stuck to a 12 mm extension tube on the 40D. I scrolled the Ultrasound print in one hand and held it up to a 65 watt incandescent light. I got close and let the AF lock onto the sheet then adjusted my distance as necessary to maintain focus. The result was a images had a brownish color cast to them so a trip to Elements to desaturate the image and save it as a jpg was all that was necessary.

The colors are really sweet out here so tomorrow I am going to try and get some good images. 

We will see... Doug