July 2019

I’m away from the shop, on vacation with my family, for a couple weeks.  

If you’re emailing me about tattoo appointments,  I will respond to your email around the 19-21st or so. 

Here are a few images from our road trip to the Rockies.

March - 2019

Welcome back.

Spring has come, the waters will soon rise!

Here's gordie tattooing at the February convention here in Winnipeg.  I had a good time, it was fun getting to do a bunch of tattoos that i had been wanting to do in such a short time!  Usually at the shop, i'm doing a lot of what other people ask for, so getting to work straight off of proposed designs was a real treat.

I mostly did larger machined tattoos, but did get to do a few smaller handmade designs in between.  Spring, and sunrise, the hits of my stick and poke repretoire!

My good client Jessie came and picked this one I had been hoping to do.

This theme of thistle and snake was a hit, I look forward to doing more like these.  

Inspired by the voynich manuscript.

 I was sure glad to catch a healed photo of this one!

 Again, it's such a pleasure to be getting to do more work like this, freehand web and roses.

 Maybe I blogged these already, but here are a few photos of the old conservatory the day before it shut down.

Where's Wierdo?

the nikkor 50/1.4 shining!

*Photo nerd warning

I stopped using a light meter a few years ago, after greycarding everything for a few years.  When I got these photos of the conservatory back, i was really proud that the exposures were so good even in an unfamiliar setting.  I highly recommend greycarding to train your eye on light.

Shooting on the Nikon FM3a really is nice too, because it has the 1/3 stops on the compensation ring, it lets you get a pretty sublte exposure for such a simple camera.

The long nights of winter are behind us! Looking very forward to the summer.

Thanks for looking.

February 2019

Welcome back to the blog, here are some photos from a few recent rolls.  

I was happy to pull an older roll out of one of my cameras that had a few nice summer photos.

These were mostly done last year at the Winnipeg Tattoo Show downtown.  Last year I was only doing hand poked designs, mostly off some flash I made.  This year I will be making both hand pushed and machined tattoos from recent flash.  Please check out my Instagram  to catch some sneak peeks of the flash I'll be working from for the weekend -  @bramadey -  The show is at the Winnipeg Convention Centre February 22 - 23 - 24.  I hope to see you there!

A healed one from a little while ago.

 

Sammy from this summer.  I love photographing the kids in this spot of our house...  And I always cherish when a first frame turns out like this.

Avery in Deepwater bay on Clear Lake.

A big American Elm coming down on my block.  

Jade and I had a really successful fundraiser day last month for the WE24hour program.  It was a great success, and I got to do a bunch of flash out of my book at the same time.

Also from the fundraiser day.  Interestingly, this drawing was made from life on the trip to riding mountain that the previous swimming photos are from.

Another one from the WE24hour flash day.  Thanks to all our great clients, and especially to Rebel Waltz Tattoo for donating all the supplies to make this event possible.

For a good ol' client!

This is my first real Backpiece!  Thanks Gabe! Three sessions, 15hours.  Please do inquire about large scale work.  bram_adey@hotmail.com

Adding to Arty's legs.  Freehand snake.

Thanks for looking!  I'm going to try to shift back to just blogging as my main online presence, with the social media scene being so tricky to feel good within...