Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey
view from Montague Row
It’s hard for me to believe it’s been ten years since I went to Nova Scotia. At that time, I was working on a specific project that involved my great aunt’s poetry about Acadians in Louisiana and pairing her words with my images from the Acadian part of Nova Scotia. It felt profound then, and still does, a little bit, now.
At the same time I was gone, my dad was in hospice care back in Texas. That also felt profound then, and still does.
He died 34 days after I got back. And I’m glad I made the trip when I did: it helped me gather strength for day 35 and 36 and so on.
Digby, Nova Scotia
photographed 7.27.2015
motors
I’ve been watching the place for a long time, waiting for the abandonment to hit the critical, photo-worthy point. And it’s nearly there…
The day I visited I noticed how those letters were cut from sheets of plywood. And then I realized that the wood grain is going in different directions on the letters and now I can’t un-see that part of it. (That’s a weird relic in my brain left over from when I was learning – unsuccessfully – to sew. Nice that I still remember to lay a pattern the same direction on the grain of the fabric and how hilarious that one thing still hangs around to influence random photographs.)
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
shade/fabric
If you do it right, you can get that shade fabric to distort the lights.
On the other hand, if you do it wrong, the same thing will happen.
I think I did it wrong, but I got the same results, so maybe I actually did it right. Who knows?
Anyway, here’s a picture.
Slaton, Texas
photographed 8.7.2025
index notch
If you ever wondered if those indentions in old-school dictionaries have a particular name, the answer is that yes, they do. They are called an index notch.
If you ever wondered if a close-up photo of an index notch* looked like a piece of wood that had been carved out, that answer is also yes.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2028
*See how smart you are? You JUST learned a new word and there you are, already using it in a sentence. Yay, you!
not my type(writer)
The photographer that I was in 2018 thought this was a terrible image. However, the photographer I am right now was very excited to see it because it reminded me of a x-ray.
And so, kids, that’s why I almost never delete an image.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2018
One Day | One Image 