Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

A long time ago I’ve promised pictures of Sofia Georgiades. I was the only one who made photographs on her first day in this world, but I had to hold them back for some time. Both Alex and Kate didn’t want me to release them for the 40 days or so. And than they weren’t sure that they wanted to release them at all. But I was persuasive and finally we agreed to make them public. After all this fuzz I realized that I didn’t do any post-processing or color corrections what-so-ever. I’m too bored and lazy to do them now, so you’ll have to look at them as raw as they are.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-07-19_Sofia_Georgiades

On behalf of our family I’d like to congratulate Alex and Katia Georgiades. Today they became the parents of their second daughter - Sofia Georgiades. Sofia was naturally born at 4:30am, weighting 3250 grams.

Olga and I were among those chosen few who were allowed to see the baby on her first day of life. Both of us were deeply touched. We also brought Maxim with us who really looked like a giant near Sofia, despite his almost 5 monthes of age.

I made a few pictures, but I will not release them to the general public for the next 40 days as per request of the young father.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome my first son into this world. He was born today, February 23, 2005, at 12:56. Weighting as much as 3680 grams, he passed all the checks and looks and feels perfectly OK. “All systems are running”. Olga is getting well now after having the Caesarean section (for medical reasons).

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