The images aren’t high quality, sometimes objects fade out of focus, and many of the neon lights remain out of commission after a severe hailstorm in late March.
But this recent video from the seminal Route 66 town of Tucumcari, N.M., made me exclaim: “I wish I’d thought of that.”
Brian, aka bkdurham, on a Saturday night mounted a video camera on the dashboard of his car and drove from one end of Tucumcari’s city limits to the other and back. You’ll see many of Tucumcari’s vintage signs and/or neon. Appropriately enough, in the background is big-band and jazz music from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s.
This could be my imagination, but if you look carefully enough, you may see some ghosts on the Mother Road.
Taking videos at night is a very difficult proposition. I find that the thirty minutes before dark are the best for taking shots of lights and especially neon.
You never get a focused shot unless you stop and take some time.