Thursday © Leland Bobbé
My image titled “Thursday” just won an overall first place in the June Worldwide Gala Monthly Pollux Awards in the Cityscapes category. This is the my 3rd image selected to to participate in the final selection of the Pollux Awards to be judged in October by the 6 judges of the monthly contest. I previously placed images in the portrait and abstract categories in April. This shot was taken on a rainy thursday afternoon in Times Square on real film.
Creamy Stevens © Leland Bobbé
Spottr, an online Hungarian photography magazine is currently featuring a selection of images from my award winning Neo-Burlesque series.
Clown © Leland Bobbé
This is my scary clown portrait of Ambrose Martos. Actor, burlesque show host and professional clown, I found Ambrose on Facebook on a friends page and was struck by his quirky looks. I sought him out and ended up shooting him 3 different ways . . . a studio portrait, as part of my neo-burlesque series, and as a clown. I shot this downtown NYC using a mini-beauty dish on a Nikon speedlight with a 70-300 zoom set at 185mm, at f8.
Mohawk Kid © Leland Bobbé
This is another in my series of portraits of people at upstate NY summer fairs. This kid definitely has his look together. Natural light and a silver reflector did the job.
Boo Bess & Cheeky Lane © Leland Bobbé
A selection from my award winning series of portraits of Neo-Burlesque performers is currently online in the Russian version of Esquire Magazine. Thanks again to the New York Burlesque community for helping to make this such a successful project.
© Leland Bobbé
Recently I’ve been attending summer fairs in upstate New York to do portraits of interesting looking characters. I found this gentleman selling all kinds of toys and trinkets that he designs himself during the winter. This was shot in open shade using only a silver reflector.
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
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.
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.
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.
