Author Archives: Melinda Green Harvey

fever dream, 1

Way back in time, during the COVID era, a photography studio in a neighboring town went out of business. They sold the props, the backdrops, the shelves. And boxes and boxes of negatives.

I bought some of the negatives with the idea that I’d do something with them someday.

Someday turns out to be: right now.

My imagination runs wild when I start manipulating these negatives, and I hope you’ll let yours do the same.

scanned and manipulated found negative
Lubbock, Texas

4.25.2025

street/light

A rare photo of the pole that holds the full moon up in the sky!

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.26.2025

pearls, downtown

There’s a wedding dress store downtown, a thing I wouldn’t have known if it had been a typical dry Saturday.
 
I saw this window and crossed the street to get the shot. That was actually more exciting than it sounds: I had some useful information in my head (that the street on north side of that particular block of Broadway floods pretty badly when it rains more that, say, five drops) so I sort of forded a street-river to get over there.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.26.2025

rain/lock

Someone secured the gate by leaving the open padlock on the wall. I am not a safety expert but that strikes me as being not secure.

But anyway, the raindrops and the colors looked good together and that’s really all I was after.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.26.2025

muses

I think normal people, if they woke up on a chilly Saturday and heard the rain, would have a probably rolled over and gotten some more sleep.

Photographers are not normal.

So I got up and went downtown to photograph rain falling on Lubbock’s downtown, which is pretty bleak to start with.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.26.2025