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Leading up to this Challenge, I was worried that I might have difficulty finding illuminated neon signs in the few hours of darkness I'd realistically have available to me at night to shoot, since I do plan on sleeping during normal nighttime hours. I'm in the Pacific Time Zone, 3 hours behind Worth time, so I'm using 9 p.m to 9 p.m. as my twenty-four hour period. I didn't go out of my way to check in advance where there might be neon lights turned on at night either, but figured there had to be lots of them within a few miles of my house.
Tonight, I went out about 10 p.m. and drove down a major thoroughfare in my area, looking. Traffic was light. Lo and behold, I didn't have to go very far at all before finding a liquor store with this vibrant neon sign in the window! I have lived in this neighborhood for over twenty years, travel this street at least once a day, often several times, and have even been to this liquor store a few times, yet I can honestly say I have never noticed this sign before. Of course, it's far more visible at night, but still...
The store was closed, and fairly dark, except for a few small lights within, which I cloned out to eliminate the distraction. I guess that in honor of this first find I should actually go there and buy some Pacifico Beer, since I've never even heard of it, but it saved the day and got my blog off to an easy, and colorful, start!
This is great! Now I'm eagerly looking forward to my nightly junkets in quest of neon!
