Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey

sturgeon moon

It really is hard to beat a summer night at a baseball game. And when you can see the Sturgeon Moon rise over the field…it’s just about perfect!

Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025

he was out at first

That runner gave it all he had, but he was watching the ball could already tell that he’d be out at first.

His team (the Amarillo Sod Poodles) won, anyway.

Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025

the rbi

Look at me, pretending to be a sports photographer! (The runner was called safe. It was not a popular decision.)

Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025

game/face

Because I am still encumbered by that delightful orthopedic boot, I am looking for ways I can still make photos without a lot of walking around. Also, it’s freaking hot and who needs to be walking around in that??

Turns out that a minor league baseball game holds a pretty good set of subjects, including this player getting ready for his turn at bat. I’ve never quite seen this much concentration on one face.

Amarillo Sod Poodles at the Midland Rockhounds
Midland, Texas
photographed 8.9.2025

can’t sink me in sorrow

I’ve lived almost my whole life on the plains, within view of long horizons. Without them, I feel constrained.

Which I guess is why I took advantage of a piece of a horizon and stretched it out into a four-shot panorama. I felt better, too, when I was done and the photo was a little more horizon-y than the camera realized.

Gilbert’s Cove, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015