Melrose

A Creative Nonfiction Piece by Luke Nelson You should be grateful.  You should feel blessed.  Look how beautiful this place is:  Wide open skies,  Finely trimmed hedges,  Pretty little houses.  Look at how good you have it. See this utopia of American dreams? Feel the lull and the sigh?  You are perfect in the beauty.Continue reading “Melrose”

Ghosts

by Luke Nelson 9/16/2020 For several months I had been seeing what other photographers could do with a slow shutter speed, and I wanted to try my hand at it. Then, one day, as I was scrolling through WordPress, I found a page by a photographer who was journaling her learning experience, and one ofContinue reading “Ghosts”

The Red Collection

This is a series of photos I took at a little diner near my house that had an interesting, vivid red coat. I wanted my subject to be wearing color that contrasted heavily with the red paint, so a yellow shirt was perfect. By coincidence, the yellow shirt also created a cool reflection off theContinue reading “The Red Collection”