Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey
OKC Mornings
Well, this is something different!
Mornings from my hotel room were filled with the view across the street, and I couldn’t resist making photos. And then, I couldn’t resist making them into a triptych.
Also, starting this week, this image and a few others will be available for purchase at Broadway Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Lubbock. I am extremely proud that gallery owner (and artist) Janelle Barrington-Spivey has included my work with the other local and regional artists she represents. If you’re in Lubbock, stop on by and tell Janelle I said hello.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
photographed 11.24.2021, 11.25.2021, and 11.26.2021
higher than the sky
Changes in agriculture* have rendered this grain elevator (and many of its cousins) unnecessary. But this is at least the third time I’ve photographed this particular one, and I bet I’m not done yet. So they still do serve a purpose, although it is very limited and contributes nothing to local economies…
County Line, Texas
photographed 12.11.2021
*I said that like I know what those changes are. But I don’t.
Confusion (with paper towels)
When you combine a photographer, an out-of-business restaurant, a highway, and a very reflective (and dirty) window, this is what you get.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.11.2021
Lunch Lady
Color AND a person? I’m as surprised by this as you are.
(Backstory: we drove to Olton for lunch at a BBQ place that’s very good, and well worth the hour’s drive. It’s a food truck, and this woman was sitting at one of the picnic tables waiting on her lunch to arrive. Travel advice: if you like BBQ you may want to check out Rejino BBY, but get there early as they sell out.)
Olton, Texas
photographed 12.11.2021
Winter Grasses
Sometimes you do a thing on a whim – without any real thought or planning or expectations – and it turns out to be the best thing, the most life-altering thing, a thing you couldn’t have even imagined.
On January 1, 2009, I started a blog, a photography blog. My concept (a rather grand term for what was really more like the vaguest of ideas) was to post a black and white image every day for year. I completed that year, and did another and another and now here we are, as I embark on my 14th year of posting images every day. A lot has happened since then. For one thing, I’ve become a much better photographer. But the main thing is that I have made strong connections with photographers all over the world, and can count some of them as among my closest friends. That is something I never could have imagined.
All of this to say: follow your whims – you never know what can happen.
County Line, Texas
photographed 12.11.2021
One Day | One Image 