Just the Glow
Maternity photos do something. Chelsea Salmon, Steve Shaw’s lens, all soft focus and inevitability. I think of Steffen, who once fell apart in my living room because his condom split. His girlfriend’s image in one hand. He was panicking but also something else—like the future had already decided itself and he was just catching up.
These pictures only show the soft part. Not the 3 AM sickness or the body doing things you never signed up for, not the sheer randomness of when it actually happens. You wait for the right moment with the right person and the timing is always wrong, or it never comes, or you’re still waiting while everyone else’s lives change.
I don’t know. Nice shot though.