Tattoos by Bram Adey

Welcome back y'all, here are some photos from a couple weeks ago, I hope you like 'em! it's funny learning how to be a digital photographer, I've ended up with files all over the place, and post-processed photos in random folders, then when I came to publish this blog, all the photos are just as-was-shot, no post processing. Next time i'm gonna try to have the photos looking extra great, but for now, here's some uncut product for you.

A couple birds at Little Mountain park. I was stoked to shoot this kingfisher, that's a fancy bird by my estimation!

I got to take a tour of the downtown Winnipeg CBC building with our hoimeschool group. They had a great vintage catalog about the CBC "gem" logo.

These next few photos I took to show y'all how I collect and filter waste vegetable oil to burn in my modified diesel vehicle.

I just keep an eye out in my neighborhood for restaurants that dispose of their oil in jugs like this.

I let the oil sit undisturbed for a couple weeks so the sediment can settle to the bottom of the jug, then run it through this filter.

This filtered oil can then be poured right in the veggie oil tank in my van and used in place of diesel. Any diesel vehicle can be modified in this way, and it means free low-emission fuel all summer long (does not work in the cold, as far as I can tell).

Was stoked to be walking in my neighborhood with my 105mm f2.5 to get this shot, sorry to be posting an unprocessed image of it but... whatever...

A few nice little doodads for an old client.

This one's stick and poked.

This client asked if we could work on a sleeve exploring non-binary gender identities, and I'm really proud of how it's started out. We're using contrasting Oak and Magnolia imagery for an organic element, and dualed regular polyhedra for a geometric aspect.

In Geometry, there are five regular polyhedra (three dimensional shapes that have all equal shaped/sized sides and all equal edge-lengths), and within each is found another, I love this relationship, and though it would be a nice way of exploring the theme of the sleeve.

Neighborhood cats...

Some hand ideas. The web of the thumb idea here is one that came to me as a bit of a vision. It is a home reflected in a river. In ancient assyria, a upside down city pictograph represents a destroyed city. I was struggling with drug addiction when this came to me, and the idea is that the potential for a broken of a complete home exist always at the same time, and that there is always potential for either, but they never can exist at the same time.

This set simply represents the passing of time, seasons, death and rebirth.

A great old client! A big part of wanting to get back into blogging is to be able to have an online spot where you can view images like this on a large screen. If you click the photos you should be able to see it large scale.

Oh and an amazing project done across the last four years or so! I love tattooing artists and creative people. This client came with the idea of the line-art dancer silhouettes, then we added the plants, then the neural web, and last week we added the insects. I feel like the project is done, but who knows, maybe we'll add some crystals one of these days?!?

Had a beard...

Always new flash designs coming down the pipe!

Shaved the beard!

I took the fam to the old Quarries that I used to visit as a young child.

It was just like I remembered!

The commies are comin' for your kids!

I'm rootin' for them. Who isn't truly sick of capitalism by now...

Another neighborhood cat.

Thrifting in the post-plastic bag era... Bindles.

Spot-check, slappy mannies.

The Japanese gardens.

Convention centre, up-curb/down-curb

Jared Arnason, Millenium Library, blunt.

The Dismount.

Dirty Geurtsy

I shot this just cause anything other than a tailslide on this is absolutely terrifying...

Tyler Geurts, Back Tail, Millenium park

I was there.

Oof, another collection i'm really proud of. If you're into coming in and picking tattoos out of the book or off the wall, come see me, I've got hella designs!

That one Greg Irons design...

The Cowboy!

I copped an 85mm f1.8 the other day, a coupe test-shots.

Another geometry and flora design. I first presented this kind of work four or five years ago, I'm pretty hyped it's catching traction! this one was kind of themed around the tension/balance of the natural world and the human-made.