This year the Florida Burlesque Festival, which features performers from all over the world was an endearing tribute to the late Bunny Yeager who died at the age of 85 this year. Bunny was famed for photographing the legendary Betty Page out of Miami Beach, FL. At that time Bunny was a model herself and didn't care for the pictures that other photographers would take of her, so she started taking her own and fell in love with photography. She then started taking pictures of other performers to expand her skills. Yeager worked with numerous models over the years, but said that Page was uncommonly cooperative. "It was like us doing a dance together," Yeager said in an interview last year in the Sun Sentinel newspaper in Florida. "I would snap my fingers and she would do exactly what I told her to do: 'Stand on your toes. Kick your leg in the air. Jump in the air.'" In true Bunny style, the guys and girls of this year
Lifestyle and photography by Lauren MacLeod