April 11, 2007
House V: Photo of “Baby” Samuel and his photographer
Michael Clancy, the photographer who snapped the photo in 1999 of Baby Samuel Armas reaching out of his mother's uterus to hold the finger of his surgeon, attended a pregnancy care center banquet last month, where he and Samuel's mother Julie spoke.
Wrote Michael in an email to me, “It was a God moment when at the end of her presentation, Samuel, at seven years old, climbed the stairs and took his place beside her at the podium. A standing ovation ensued and it was one of several times that night I more than teared up, I cried.”
Here is a photo of Samuel and Michael, taken in March 2007.
BELOW: Samuel at home in Crib
BELOW: Samuel at play (from a summer 2003 Newsweek article)