https://mindypastrovich.com/ 2026-09-12 weekly 1.0 https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-mustang-convertible.jpg Mother Road Festival, downtown Springfield A red Ford Mustang convertible rolling down a downtown street past a brick building, with the chrome grille of a maroon 1956 Chevrolet filling the right side of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/mindy-shooting-route66.jpg Working the barricade line at a Route 66 festival Mindy Pastrovich laughing behind her camera in the middle of a closed street, a crowd lined along the barricades behind her and a Route 66 festival banner at the curb. https://mindypastrovich.com/mindy-pastrovich-portrait-fountain.jpg Mindy Pastrovich Mindy Pastrovich leaning against one of two weathered stone pillars on a park path, camera in one hand, a tall fountain jetting into a pool behind her and green trees beyond. https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-2026-events-roadmap.jpg The booked 2026 run, in order The Driven by Story roadmap of the booked 2026 events, laid out in order along a two lane road with a portrait of Mindy Pastrovich at the top. The Powerlight Abe Lincoln Car Show at Cherry Hills Church on July 31 and August 1. The International Route 66 Mother Road Festival downtown on September 25 to 27. The Route 66 Conference and Epic Celebration at Motorhead's Bar and Grill on November 11. The Route 66 Film Festival at the Hoogland Center for the Arts on November 20 and 21. https://mindypastrovich.com/hawk-over-treeline-clouds.jpg Riding the afternoon thermals A hawk soaring high above a green treeline under a bank of tall white clouds, with the sand edge of a lake and a cut field in the bottom of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/downtown-arches-bench.jpg Downtown, nobody about Two tall arched windows with green weathered copper grilles set into a pale limestone wall, an iron lamppost and an empty black bench on the brick sidewalk below. https://mindypastrovich.com/cougar-engine-detail.jpg Cougar, hood up The open hood of a red Mercury Cougar at a car show, blue plug wires and polished chrome under the lid, the Cougar script badge sharp on the front fender. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-rotunda-dome.jpg Illinois State Capitol, looking up The inside of the Illinois State Capitol dome seen from the rotunda floor, ringed by a painted frieze of figures and rising to a stained glass oculus with the state seal at its center in green and gold. https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-circle-skirts.jpg Festival regulars, dressed for it Three women in wide circle skirts, one printed with the Route 66 shield and one wearing a pageant sash, holding their skirts out on a closed downtown street. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-marquee-dusk.jpg The marquee, lit for the night The lit Skyview Drive-In marquee at dusk, red neon spelling DRIVE IN down the pillar, bulbs around a yellow reader board and a panel reading VISIT OUR SNACK BAR, with the last of the sunset along the horizon behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/forest-creek-old-growth.jpg Creek through old growth A shallow creek running over stones through deep green old growth forest, sunlight breaking through the branches at the far bank. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-magnolia-bloom.jpg Magnolia against the dome A saucer magnolia in full pink bloom filling the left of the frame, with the columns and grey dome of the Illinois State Capitol soft behind it against a clear blue sky. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-chamber-chairs.jpg Empty chamber, before the room fills A row of tufted oxblood leather high back chairs behind wooden desks fitted with microphones, in a hearing room with a tapestry on the far wall. https://mindypastrovich.com/car-show-beagle-bicycle.jpg Best in show, arguably A beagle in a harness standing on the seat of a custom bicycle built to look like a red muscle car, with a white sports car parked on the bricks behind it. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-programs-table.jpg Programs, before the doors open A stack of programs for the 24th annual International Route 66 Film Festival fanned across a table, the cover showing a gold film reel and the dates at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield. https://mindypastrovich.com/downtown-plaza-supercar.jpg Downtown plaza, late light Late day sun flaring through the trees of a downtown plaza, a white supercar parked along the brick walk and a tower rising behind the canopy. https://mindypastrovich.com/production/ 2026-09-12 monthly 0.9 https://mindypastrovich.com/car-show-burnout-smoke.jpg Burnout, mid street, full crowd A cream classic Cadillac lit up in a burnout at the center of a closed street, tire smoke towering over the roofline while a crowd watches from behind barricades and a drone hovers overhead. https://mindypastrovich.com/cougar-engine-detail.jpg Cougar, hood up The open hood of a red Mercury Cougar at a car show, blue plug wires and polished chrome under the lid, the Cougar script badge sharp on the front fender. https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-circle-skirts.jpg Festival regulars, dressed for it Three women in wide circle skirts, one printed with the Route 66 shield and one wearing a pageant sash, holding their skirts out on a closed downtown street. https://mindypastrovich.com/route66/ 2026-09-12 weekly 0.9 https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-2026-events-roadmap.jpg The booked 2026 run, in order The Driven by Story roadmap of the booked 2026 events, laid out in order along a two lane road with a portrait of Mindy Pastrovich at the top. The Powerlight Abe Lincoln Car Show at Cherry Hills Church on July 31 and August 1. The International Route 66 Mother Road Festival downtown on September 25 to 27. The Route 66 Conference and Epic Celebration at Motorhead's Bar and Grill on November 11. The Route 66 Film Festival at the Hoogland Center for the Arts on November 20 and 21. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-audience-above.jpg Between screenings Festival goers with lanyards talking between screenings in a row of theater seats, shot from the balcony above them. https://mindypastrovich.com/galleries/ 2026-09-12 weekly 0.8 https://mindypastrovich.com/route66-mustang-convertible.jpg Mother Road Festival, downtown Springfield A red Ford Mustang convertible rolling down a downtown street past a brick building, with the chrome grille of a maroon 1956 Chevrolet filling the right side of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/car-show-burnout-smoke.jpg Burnout, mid street, full crowd A cream classic Cadillac lit up in a burnout at the center of a closed street, tire smoke towering over the roofline while a crowd watches from behind barricades and a drone hovers overhead. https://mindypastrovich.com/cougar-engine-detail.jpg Cougar, hood up The open hood of a red Mercury Cougar at a car show, blue plug wires and polished chrome under the lid, the Cougar script badge sharp on the front fender. https://mindypastrovich.com/downtown-plaza-supercar.jpg Downtown plaza, late light Late day sun flaring through the trees of a downtown plaza, a white supercar parked along the brick walk and a tower rising behind the canopy. https://mindypastrovich.com/abe-show-plymouth-rain-hood.jpg Plymouth, holding the rain Black and white close view of a 1960s Plymouth head on in the rain, the hood covered in standing water beads, the chrome hood ornament centered above the PLYMOUTH letters and the full width of the bar grille below. https://mindypastrovich.com/abe-show-state-police-plymouth.jpg State Police cruiser, out in it The front fender of a restored white Illinois State Police Plymouth beaded with rain, its stacked headlight and turn lamp at right and the State Police door lettering running down the left of the frame under a spotlight mirror. https://mindypastrovich.com/abe-show-wet-pavement-quarter.jpg Rain day, parked on the line Low three quarter view of a white muscle car with gold and black side stripes parked on soaked pavement, its rear wheel and dented quarter panel filling the left of the frame and the car mirrored in the water pooled along a painted parking line. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-screen-tower-sunset.jpg Skyview Drive-In, gates about to open The screen tower of the Skyview Drive-In standing against a red and orange sunset, with the corrugated perimeter fence running back toward the setting sun and the gravel entrance drive alongside. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-marquee-dusk.jpg The marquee, lit for the night The lit Skyview Drive-In marquee at dusk, red neon spelling DRIVE IN down the pillar, bulbs around a yellow reader board and a panel reading VISIT OUR SNACK BAR, with the last of the sunset along the horizon behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-marquee-opening-carnival.jpg Opening weekend, first event of the season The Skyview Drive-In marquee in daylight reading OPENING CARNIVAL APR 28 29 and 30, with a Route 66 interpretive marker for the drive-in in the foreground and grain bins along the horizon. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-screen-from-lot.jpg From the middle of the lot The Skyview Drive-In screen seen from the middle of the gravel lot at sunset, the sun going down at the left edge and broken clouds across the whole sky. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-programs-table.jpg Programs, before the doors open A stack of programs for the 24th annual International Route 66 Film Festival fanned across a table, the cover showing a gold film reel and the dates at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-hoogland-stage.jpg Question and answer, Hoogland Center The wide stage at the Hoogland Center for the Arts with the screen up and the red curtain drawn back, two filmmakers seated for a question and answer session and a host standing at the right of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-tickets-brochures.jpg Admit one Admit One tickets scattered across Illinois Route 66 brochures on the festival welcome table. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-audience-above.jpg Between screenings Festival goers with lanyards talking between screenings in a row of theater seats, shot from the balcony above them. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-concession-blue.jpg Back of the room, film running An antique cash register in the foreground lit blue and green, with a film playing on the screen behind it out of focus. https://mindypastrovich.com/filmfest-award-red-carpet.jpg An award, handed over Three people on the red carpet in front of the Route 66 Film Festival backdrop, one of them holding a clapperboard trophy. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-rotunda-dome.jpg Illinois State Capitol, looking up The inside of the Illinois State Capitol dome seen from the rotunda floor, ringed by a painted frieze of figures and rising to a stained glass oculus with the state seal at its center in green and gold. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-magnolia-bloom.jpg Magnolia against the dome A saucer magnolia in full pink bloom filling the left of the frame, with the columns and grey dome of the Illinois State Capitol soft behind it against a clear blue sky. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-dome-mosaic-wall.jpg Capitol dome and the tile wall The Illinois State Capitol dome against a deep blue sky, with a long mosaic wall of hand painted tiles in red, yellow, green and blue running along the sidewalk in the foreground. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-chamber-chairs.jpg Empty chamber, before the room fills A row of tufted oxblood leather high back chairs behind wooden desks fitted with microphones, in a hearing room with a tapestry on the far wall. https://mindypastrovich.com/illinois-flag-detail.jpg Illinois and the Union The Illinois state flag hanging on a gold corded pole, the eagle and the UNION ribbon visible in its folds, with the United States flag and a trailing ivy behind it. https://mindypastrovich.com/downtown-arches-bench.jpg Downtown, nobody about Two tall arched windows with green weathered copper grilles set into a pale limestone wall, an iron lamppost and an empty black bench on the brick sidewalk below. https://mindypastrovich.com/soldier-monument-sunflare.jpg Into the sun, monument square A bronze soldier on a stone monument shot from below into the sun, rifle over one shoulder and a bugle in hand, the light flaring across the figure. https://mindypastrovich.com/forest-creek-old-growth.jpg Creek through old growth A shallow creek running over stones through deep green old growth forest, sunlight breaking through the branches at the far bank. https://mindypastrovich.com/heron-lifting-off-lake.jpg Off the water, Illinois lake A great blue heron lifting off a still lake with its wings spread and its feet trailing rings across the water, a wooded point and a hazy morning sky behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/hawk-over-treeline-clouds.jpg Riding the afternoon thermals A hawk soaring high above a green treeline under a bank of tall white clouds, with the sand edge of a lake and a cut field in the bottom of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/bumblebee-woodland-sunflower.jpg Woodland sunflower and one bee A bumblebee working the orange center of a yellow woodland sunflower, with a second bloom above it and an arching green foxtail seedhead alongside. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-whale-spout-close.jpg One spout, morning light A whale blowing on open water in early light, the spout standing lit above the dark back of the animal at the surface, with timbered islands and the coast range laid out in hazy gold along the horizon behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-fishing-boat-dark-water.jpg Fishing boat, early water A small fishing boat seen from high above, running alone across dark rippled water with its wake curling away behind it. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-ship-balconies-mountains.jpg Balconies and the coast range The stacked balconies of a cruise ship curving away in gold light down the right of the frame, with a jagged snow capped coast range across the water on the left. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-peaks-above-clouds.jpg Above its own cloud line A snow covered peak standing above a flat bank of cloud with a dark forested ridge below it, still blue water running across the bottom of the frame. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-shore-cabins-tide-flat.jpg Houses at the tide line Two houses tucked into dense spruce above a broad gravel tide flat at low water, one weathered red and one green with a steep roof. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-dock-pilings-low-tide.jpg What is left of the dock, low tide Two long rows of old dock pilings standing out of a wide gravel tide flat at low water, a few skiffs sitting aground beside them and gulls scattered across the mud, dense alder and spruce timber closing off the shore behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/alaska-fog-spruce-ridge.jpg Fog coming down the ridge Low cloud spilling over a green mountain ridge and down into spruce timber, the top of the frame gone white with fog. https://mindypastrovich.com/strategy/ 2026-09-12 monthly 0.9 https://mindypastrovich.com/mindy-shooting-route66.jpg Working the barricade line at a Route 66 festival Mindy Pastrovich laughing behind her camera in the middle of a closed street, a crowd lined along the barricades behind her and a Route 66 festival banner at the curb. https://mindypastrovich.com/capitol-chamber-chairs.jpg Empty chamber, before the room fills A row of tufted oxblood leather high back chairs behind wooden desks fitted with microphones, in a hearing room with a tapestry on the far wall. https://mindypastrovich.com/car-show-burnout-smoke.jpg Burnout, mid street, full crowd A cream classic Cadillac lit up in a burnout at the center of a closed street, tire smoke towering over the roofline while a crowd watches from behind barricades and a drone hovers overhead. https://mindypastrovich.com/about/ 2026-09-12 monthly 0.7 https://mindypastrovich.com/mindy-pastrovich-portrait-fountain.jpg Mindy Pastrovich Mindy Pastrovich leaning against one of two weathered stone pillars on a park path, camera in one hand, a tall fountain jetting into a pool behind her and green trees beyond. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-screen-tower-sunset.jpg Skyview Drive-In, gates about to open The screen tower of the Skyview Drive-In standing against a red and orange sunset, with the corrugated perimeter fence running back toward the setting sun and the gravel entrance drive alongside. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-marquee-dusk.jpg The marquee, lit for the night The lit Skyview Drive-In marquee at dusk, red neon spelling DRIVE IN down the pillar, bulbs around a yellow reader board and a panel reading VISIT OUR SNACK BAR, with the last of the sunset along the horizon behind. https://mindypastrovich.com/skyview-marquee-opening-carnival.jpg Opening weekend, first event of the season The Skyview Drive-In marquee in daylight reading OPENING CARNIVAL APR 28 29 and 30, with a Route 66 interpretive marker for the drive-in in the foreground and grain bins along the horizon. https://mindypastrovich.com/accessibility/ 2026-09-12 yearly 0.3