Love in Neon

Some locations are just made to be a photographer’s playground. On the one hand, there are enchanting, fairytale-like forests, majestic mountains and sweeping valleys; on the other, you have the Neon Museum in Las Vegas.

Florida-based wedding photographer Jason Mize finally got to shoot there after pining for the opportunity for years. More specifically, he got to explore what’s called “the Neon Boneyard,” he says. There lies more than 200 colorfully ostentatious neon treasures that hail from all over Vegas—Caesars Palace, Palms Casino, New York-New York and, of course, Lady Luck.

This sign, resurrected in the 1960s, got the boot after the hotel was closed for construction and renamed in the early 2000s, but the sign rests in peace at the Neon Boneyard, where Mize’s couple—to his delight—chose to make their lifelong vows.

(Captured with a Nikon D750 and 35mm f/1.4G lens at f/3.2, 1/4000th of a sec and ISO 100.)

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