All images are by Melanie Warner Spencer, who in addition to being a reporter, also is an accomplished, award-winning fine art and editorial photographer. If you’d like to use or purchase any of the photos on the site, please email Spencer at penfemme@gmail.com. Thanks for your interest! Click here to view a list of Spencer’s past exhibitions.

Hoppy Trails

(2018 Silver International and Regional Magazine Award for Travel Package)

Along the Way 

(Ongoing Fine Art Series 1999 to Present)

Red Church House, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014

The River Shack, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014

KTBX-TV, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 2014

The Castle Restaurant at the Dunleith Historic Inn, Natchez, Mississippi, 2014

Outbuilding, Verona, Kentucky, 2014

House with Flowers, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014

Winter Beach, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 2014

Airport Diner, Fredericksburg, Texas, 2011

Train Over the Water, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 2014

Steamboat on the River, Natchez Mississippi, 2014

Shrimp Boat, Waveland, Mississippi, 2014

Yellow Bathtub, Houston, Texas, 2013

Historic Jefferson Military College, Natchez, Mississippi, 2014

Apples Lounge, Galveston, Texas, 2013

Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014

Star Drug Store, Galveston, Texas 2013

Crystal Grill, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2014

St. Charles Avenue Street Tiles, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014

Editorial: Food