By now, you’ve probably read about photographer Sandi Wheaton and her journey to document Route 66 with a series of time-lapse images. She’s in the Texas Panhandle now.
But there are other photographers who are traveling the road or who recently did so.
One is Steven Brett Stoddart, who is traveling the Mother Road from Chicago to L.A. and is bedding down in Yukon, Okla., tonight. He’s using professional-grade cameras on his trip, but is also posting images from his iPhone along the way. The iPhone shots, with deft editing software, give the images an old-school Polaroid quality. Nice stuff.
Also, Colorado resident Tommie Bishop recently went back to her native Oklahoma to take moody, black-and-white photographs along Route 66. Some of the photographs will be used in musician Jeff Elder’s Strange Highways project. You can go here to see some of Bishop’s photos, along with a blog post about her bittersweet feelings on returning to the Sooner State. (Disclosure: I recommended some places for Bishop to use during her excursion.)
I hope Ms. Wheaton stops by KDSK radio while she is in Grants, NM. Derek Underhill and Mr. Lee can point her to all of the sites in town. Donn Webb, an on air DJ there at KDSK, also teaches a class at NMSU-Grants in modern culture and I’m sure would like to meet her.
Maybe our old friend, Steve Vaught of Fatmanwalking fame, could provide some further insight into travel and life for her as well. I think he still visits his website and his Yahoo group of the same name.
Best of luck to her along the way, and I hope she comes to terms with her advanced case of wonderlust.