Butts Brothers © Leland Bobbé
These are the Butts Brothers from Deposit, New York. On our weekend trips to our cabin upstate NY I had seen these gents on their porch for years and always wanted to do a portrait but never had the guts to go up and ask them. Now that I’m on a mission to shoot more location portraits the time was now. On a trip to the grocery store Robin and I saw them so we went back to the house, grabbed some gear and went back. Robin went up and asked them and they agreed. I really liked the open shade on the porch so decided just to use a reflector to pump up the contrast a bit. With a little help from Photoshop these are the results.
Carl and Billy Butts © Leland Bobbé
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July 27th, 2011
Complete Satisfaction © Leland Bobbé
A selection of my NYC street photography focusing on the gritty 1970’s is now featured in aCurator, the Life award winning online magazine published and curated by Julie Grahame. This is my second feaure in aCurator the first being my critically acclaimed Women of Fifth Avenue series.
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July 18th, 2011
- Cheekie Lane © Leland Bobbé
A selection from my award winning Neo Burlesque series was just featured in Feature Shoot, Recently cited by Life as one 2011’s best photography blogs. A big thanks to Alison Zavos for including my work in her blog.
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July 12th, 2011
Black Swan © Leland Bobbé
My image titled Black Swan just took a first place in the 2011 World Photography Gala Awards Competition in the Cityscapes and Street Photography category. This image is part of my Stormy Weather series currently on my website. This image is one of my favorite images that I have ever taken.
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July 6th, 2011
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July 1st, 2011
© Leland Bobbé
With the recent launch of my new website I re-edited my collection of street photography from NYC in the mid-1970’s. Looking at this collection of images it struck me once again how much this city has changed since then. Personally I found the old city much more exciting and edgy and wish the current NYC had a bit more of the old. This shot was taken on 8th Ave. just north of infamous 42nd street. This stretch of 8th Ave used to be called the Minnesota Strip because of all the runaways form the mid-west that ended up there as prostitutes. Shot from the hip while walking with a pre-focused 28mm lens on my Nikon FM with Tri-X film.
I am now collaborating with Julie Grahame of aCurator Magazine on a feature which will be coming out soon.
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June 28th, 2011
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June 22nd, 2011
Gothic Hangman © Leland Bobbé
This is my recent portrait of gothic surrealist painter/photographer Gothic Hangman. With style for days and a personality to match, I got away from the tight face shooting i’ve been doing over the past few months in order to get all that I wanted into that frame. Once again i used my trusty beauty dish as the only light source, working it to light both him and my background.
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June 20th, 2011
Jorden Haley © Leland Bobbé
I met designer Jorden Haley at my opening at the The Musem of Sex. Jorden owns Bird of Prey, a ready to wear label featuring esoteric graphic prints, custom accessories and sterling jewelry He had a great look and presence and I asked him if he was interested in sitting for a portrait. I wanted to capture something moody and off beat so we did a lot of shots with him looking off camera. This shot did it for me.
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June 6th, 2011
