French PHOTO Contest Success

January 26th, 2024

My good friend, Dave Rudin, is in France at the moment and has located copies of the contest issue of French PHOTO. He has a winner in there too.

Dave R was good enough to not only buy a couple copies to bring home to me, but also took snaps of my photo in the magazine.

Thanks to NevaehLleh for her always fantastic work as a model which made this winner possible.

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Back to Cuba

January 23rd, 2024

More from my time in Havana with lovely models Anna and Laureen.

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Something a Little Warmer

January 19th, 2024

With all the snow and cold outside today it seems like a good time to look back on warmer days.

Thanks to Carrie and Eden for warming up the day with these hot shots.

All of these photos were taken at Proparazzi.

Gotta love those old trucks.

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More from Cuba

January 17th, 2024

Some more photos from Cuba. Many more to come.

All taken at a workshop led by Steve Anchell.

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They Love Me in France

January 2nd, 2024

Once again I’m a winner in the French PHOTO magazine’s annual contest. They say it’s the largest photo contest in the world. There are tens of thousands of entries each year. I enter every year and almost always am one of the winners. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve won, but when I first started entering I had to mail physical prints to France to enter. Of course it’s all done digitally now, which is much easier when their website works.

This is my winning entry this year. That’s the incredibly wonderful NevaehLleh partially hidden behind a Joshua Tree at, you guessed it, Joshua Tree National Park. Models really don’t get any better than NevaehLleh. And she is an absolutely delightful human being on top of that. I wish she lived closer, I’d be shooting with her all the time.

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Onis Light and Dark

December 31st, 2023

A few more things shot at an artist’s studio in Havana with lovely model, Onis.

Just playing around with the light in a couple places.

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Onis in Cuba

December 27th, 2023

Despite not being able to actually talk to each other since I speak no Spanish and Onis speaks no English, Onis and I somehow instantly hit it off and knew we wanted to work together.

For the first half of this second day of shooting in Havana we were at a large artist’s studio with big windows and lots of random works of art scattered around. And some interesting light.

But we have both agreed (thanks to google translate) that this was not our favorite of the locations we worked at that week. I think we would both say it was our least favorite.

We both worked hard and struggled a bit to find photographs…but we did manage to get a few that aren’t too bad. That’s what happens with a great model.

There will be more with this lovely lady from this part of the Anchell Workshop in Havana. Stay tuned.

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Cuba–Windows and Light

December 20th, 2023

More from my trip to Cuba for Steve Anchell’s nude workshop.

Lots more to come from Cuba. Lots of editing to get done…

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Green Cuba

December 18th, 2023

Cuba was warm and green when I was there recently.

On one day I was able to work with models outdoors in a park setting.

Beautiful models and a beautiful setting. It was a good day.

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Cuba

December 13th, 2023

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been in Cuba. I was there for a nude photography workshop led by Steve Anchell. The photo above, of course, is not nude, but it is my favorite photo from the workshop. The model actually is nude, though you can’t tell.

My second favorite is the photo below. I guess it’s what some call a covered nude.

More from the workshop:

As you can see, there were many lovely models available for the workshop. For the most part each photographer was able to work one-on-one with each model. We did get several models together for a few shots now and then, though.

I like the sense of mystery and possible danger evoked by the photo below.

Many more photos to come from this adventure.

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2024 Calendars

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About this Blog

Photos and comments by Dave Levingston. This is the place to see my most recent work which may include nudes, dance, landscape, nature and whatever other kinds of photos I feel like taking.

Since it does contain nude photos, this blog is not intended for viewing by anyone under the age of 18.

All photographs and written comments on this blog are protected by the copyright laws of the United States.


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