First year in the life of a Sun photographer’s daughter
Text and pictures by Baltimore Sun photographer Karl Merton Ferron
People always warned me that I would keep filling all free space on my iPhone with images and video of our daughter, Karah Elizabeth Ferron. Needless to say, there was no argument.
Within eight months of her birth, over 10,000 iPhone captures were already made, with an intent to document our little girl’s growth and milestones. In the pictures and video, she seems uncomfortable as her mother, Megan Denarah Ferron, bathes her on February 1. On July 23, she gets her first spoon of baby food. She uses all her strength months later to crawl for the first time September 13.
- Karah Ferron was born Jan 17, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Megan Denarah Ferron holds the feet of daughter Karah Ferron on Jan 28, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron seems concerned with her first bath, as her mother, Megan Denarah Ferron, gently pours water over her head on Feb 1, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron seems as though she is jumping but is actually lying in a portable crib on Feb 6, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron sleeps while a 3D sonogram image from the third trimester shows the resemblance in a photo dated taken Feb 7, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron clamps down on her father’s finger in a photo dated May 8, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron sleeps in her favorite blanket on June 9, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron laughs as she and her mother look in the mirror in the nursery on June 10, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron sits in her mother’s lap as they play the piano on June 28, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron looks up while attempting to crawl for the first time on June 26, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron is easily distracted as her mother reads a Dr. Seuss book on June 28, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron looks with wonder as a strong storm approaches the area on July 7, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron sleeps on a bean bag at her aunt’s summer home on July 21, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron eats baby food for the first time with the help of her mother on July 23, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron wears sunglasses as her mother and father pose during shopping while on vacation to Maine on July 23, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron looks up in a photo dated Aug. 19, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- The feet of Karah Ferron are pictured in a photo dated Aug. 22, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron shows her personality in a photo dated Aug. 22, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron is pictured on Sept. 22, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron pauses from her meal with her father on Oct. 7, 2013. (Photo Credit/ Elizabeth Standish)
- Standing on the bathroom counter, Karah Ferron smiles while looking into two mirrors on Oct. 12, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron is pictured n a photo dated Oct. 17, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron wears a purple knitted bird cap while sitting in her car seat on Nov. 3, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron peers through the portable playpen at her grandparents’ home in Elkridge on Nov. 24, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron stands at the rear door of her home, looking at her first snow on Dec. 10, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron is pictured in a photo dated Dec. 25, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
- Karah Ferron opens a present at her grandparents’ Elkridge home on Dec. 25, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)
The short was created by using only one-second clips from her birth until her first birthday, the day before the party at the end of the piece, to illustrate her subtle changes that occur each day. Being a first-time father, it is amazing to see how she has evolved in 365 short days. But a year is also 5.6 percent of a child’s life, and each year demonstrates how fleeting and swift that life can be.