My 6mth old and the 85L

My little one

Really cut shot and very nice use of the lens! Thanks for sharing. I'm surprised he "left you" with any money to buy such a wonderful lens (just completed putting two daughters through 8 continuous years of college, one wedding, one upcoming ....:o)

Babies are a hard call sometimes. My daughter's name is Keira If I didn't know I'd think she was a boy in this pic too

Thank you for your comments. I showed this pic to my wife and she loved it. I bounced the flash. I was gonna play with my new Photoflex Q39 soft and medium softbox but I could loose the shot setting up.

I'm not at the stages of being a proud papa where your at but I know I'll cherish the moment when that time comes.

Hello again Alan. Sorry for the miscall on your daughter - apologies.

Back when my kids were that young I shot medium format film, bouncing the (the old potato masher) flash as you did here . Yeah, I was often tempted to set up more gear, but they bounce around and you don't want to miss that moment. My old TLR was all manual - no AF or TTL - so it was wait until the stuff came back from the lab.

But my wife is chomping at the bit for some grandkids, so perhaps in a couple of years I'll be sort of doing it all over again.