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With regard to the colouring of this piece, I am in favor of it. After all, I'm sure when your daughter was born she was the only person in the room you could look at. Making the rest of the image black and white not only places further emphasis on your daughter, but can also symbolize the fact that she is indeed the most important and special person in the room. Everything else fades to gray in comparison. So in your choice of colour you have - be it intentional or not - also described the feeling and emotion surrounding the arrival of your daughter. So what if there is a team of nurses and doctors, medical equipment and various other, less than pleasant things in the room? Suddenly none of that matters, and there is this perfect little human being in the world.
The composition is also perfect, considering the circumstances under which this piece was taken!
Overall, an amazing piece of photography!
Now, where I do disagree with your "vision" is the selective colouring employed. Whilst I understand you were trying to bring focus onto the baby, I feel that it undermines the overall quality and feel of the image. The effect is obviously a false one, and photography should surely be about capturing what is there, as it was, not a falsified image. The added issue is that the blood on the gloves looks really false, without any depth - almost as if you'd just stuck it there with a Photoshop brush in one colour.
Personally, I think this image would have been far stronger in a high-contrast black and white, or even simply in colour - your composition is strong enough.
Needless to say, congratulations however. The birth of a child is a special thing indeed.
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