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The INSIDER Summary:- Photos of baby Hope Chimeno taken on the boat that saved her from Hurricane Harvey floodwater are going viral.
- Hope was 10 days' old when she was rescued by volunteers with her parents Emily and Levi, and their two other young children, from Beaumont, Texas.
- First, the family was taken to a shelter in Louisiana before a volunteer took them into her home.
- The boat owner and volunteer realized they knew each other, and arranged a mini photo shoot for the newborn on the boat.
- Photographer Noelle Mills told INSIDER that "Baby Hope was a joy to photograph."
As stories of heroic rescue efforts surface in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, photos of a newborn baby taken on the boat that saved her from rising floodwater are making the news.
Baby Hope Chimeno was rescued by boat with her parents Emily and Levi from Beaumont, Texas, after they caught the attention of members of the Cajun Navy, a volunteer rescue group helping people to safety.
The family — which included Hope, who was only 10 days' old at the time, and two other young children — was taken to a shelter in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and later welcomed into a volunteer's home, according to the Beaumont Enterprise.
Hope returned to the boat for a mini photo shoot, which we first saw on the Telegraph. A post of the heartwarming photos on the Love What Matters Facebook page has over 31,000 likes at the time of this story.
The photo shoot came about after the owner of the boat that saved the Chimeno family and the volunteer who took them in realized that they knew each other. Along with a photographer, they surprised the Chimenos with the idea of taking some of Hope's newborn photos on the boat, according to the Beaumont Enterprise.
"The photos were exactly how I envisioned them," photographer Noelle Mills told INSIDER. "The idea was pitched to me to use the boat so my imagination was running wild with ideas. It came out just as I had hoped." She added that "Baby Hope was a joy to photograph."
The photographer's images of Hope have since been seen all over the country. "The response to these photos has been overwhelming to say the least," Mills said. "But to hear [...] people saying it's been a bright light during a dark time, is all we could have hoped for!"
Hope's mom Emily told the Beaumont Enterprise that the baby is her family's "little hero." She added: "I believe Hope’s story, including all of the amazing Louisiana folks along the way, is a great reminder that it’s the people that matter in life, not the stuff."