Our little guy smiles at us now whenever he hasn’t seen us for a while. It melts my heart and makes me want to kiss the top of his pointy head all over. He went for a checkup today and is doing really well. He’s tall and skinny 85th percentile for length and about 40th percentile for weight. Nothing surprising there.

(In retrospect, I really don’t like the color treatment I gave this photo in Photoshop. It was an experiment and I’ve realized now much perfer realistic skintones. )

I took this photo with a Canon Rebel T4i and the $250 50mm 1.4 lens. It’s not the best setup, but a lower quality setup can be offset with a great location! This was the scene from the balcony of our overwater chalet. It’s looking out across the lagoon to one of the ‘motus’ islets and to the ocean beyond.

The 35mm lens isn’t good for close-up portraits, but the distortion can be cute with babies and dogs. And anyway, it’s the lens I had with me on our trip to the coffee shop.

With wide-angle lenses, objects closer to the lens appear bigger than they actually are and objects further away appear smaller. This is why close-ups of people taken on smartphones look terrible. People don’t look good with a big nose, big forehead, wide cheeks, small eyes, and tiny ears.

Louie is changing so quickly. He barely fits in his bath tub now, spends more time awake, can sort-of hold his head up, and has started smiling. We’re sad that he graduated out of newborn-sized nappies this week. I’ve got to make some proper photos soon instead of these quick snapshots.