Les Baldwin is a Freelance professional photojournalist and commercial photographer with over 30 years experience.
Internationally published and represented, Les has had several magazine stories and covers to his credit as well as editors choice awards.
With a wide variety of subjects from aircraft to baseball, Product, sports, fashion and news, Les has covered them all. He continues to widen his horizons with both digital as well as multi format film experience. Les uses Canon EOS Digital cameras. Currently Canon 1D Mk IIn body and several L lenses.
Everything from kid's portraits & CEO's to bikini models in Cancun. With wide experience, unique image creation is what drives him.
He has photographed cars and custom bikes for Low Rider Magazine, Airplanes for TPI, & US NAVY, Fencecheck.com, fashion/swimwear for Fitness magazine. Les also covered Major League Baseball for Baseball America magazine for 8 seasons. He also has a large corporate client list, Sony, Seiko, Kawasaki, Intel, National Semiconductor, and several others in Silicon Valley. Les has written for Shutterbug magazine, Today’s International Photographer magazine, Lowrider/Lowrider Bicycle magazines. He has also done food photography for San Jose magazine.
Assisting up and coming photographers has always been an integral part of his career. Recently added to this is the title "Judge". He is a sought after judge of photography for both the N4C camera clubs (27 clubs in northern California) and the 6c's clubs too ( 5 clubs on the California Central Coast.)
Les is a member of the International Society of Aviation Photographers, and Editorial Photographers (EP)
Les Baldwin is a U.S Army Veteran with postings at Ft Bragg NC and Germany.