Stock photography, photos: Bourbon Street Awards - New Orleans Stock photos of The Bourbon Street Awards is perhaps the most outlandish display of the Mardi Gras spirit. Now into its fourth decade, the Awards Show is still going strong. Enormously popular, it's an object lesson in delirious diversity: spectacular drag, eye-popping expanses of skin, fetishist fantasy garb and outrageous comic couture. Hundreds vie for 17 trophies as amateur and professional photographers and videographers jostle for a better vantage point, documenting decadence. Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph: © Robert Burch Click for a larger image and more information Keywords associated with this stock photo: usa, united states, city, cities, new orleans, Louisiana, Mardi gras, bourbon street, bourbon street awards, gay, gay community, costumes, transvestites, female impersonators, drag queen