Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Early May - Tattoos, Birds at Garbage Hill, and Narcisse Snake Dens


Hi, welcome to my blog.  Here are some new tattoos, A couple photos around the neighbourhood, and a couple photos from the Narcisse Snake dens.

If you're interested in being tattooed, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com 
I'm always taking new clients and am happy to field any questions you might have about your ideas or my process. 

Blackberries

Chickadee and Wild Roses, this is the rare instance of someone being completely open minded and going for whatever I suggested.  Thanks so much!

A little different approach to a chest, fully asymmetrical with neck/throat.  This is a good example of something that I think is really possible due to working together across a wide span of time.  Desipite it being a vulnerable area to work, I don't think either of us was stressed or unsure, we've known one another for a long time and worked together a lot, and I'm so happy with the result.


Ermine

Jaguar

Painted Turtle

Luna Moth

Rouan Duck

Spider Webs to fill.

A very special kind of piece, the Fox and the Hare, are freshly tattooed by me, and the bouquet centrepiece is by my good friend J.R. Harper at Pacific Rose in Vancouver.

A couple flash paintings from around the studio.

I would love to tattoo this snake and keys design.

You can find me at Ritual, Tuesday-Friday, 10-6pm.  Stop by to check out all the flash and say hi in person.  

Those big summer skies comin'
I bet we'll get a big storm soon with all this heat.

I always get a little nervous when they sign the neighborhood, especially around the elms, this time, my fears were unwarranted.

A special moment, sunset on the opening buds.

A new favourite.  I shot Garbage hill all last year, and hardly even looked at this barbed-wire fence... 

On the way to the Snake Dens, I saw this road-killed Porcupine, I don't really go in for roadkill much, but I'd never seen a porcupine up close, so I stopped to check it out.  It's fur was quite yellow, and long.


The snake dens are a fun challenge, I went on just about the earliest day I thought I could, and it wasn't too busy.  But still, I was battling with folk's shadows a lot, framing something up, then someone would step right into the exposure, or the inverse, frame it up, then they move and the whole composition changes.... 


Stoked on this one.  Getting this whole-body snake is tricky, especially without any distracting stuff around.

My neighbour whose house this tree is in pulled up beside me as I shot this photo and gave me the coldest stare.

That severe face of the Grackle... Love it!

The Female Red-Winged Blackbirds are back, they're much darker than I remember.  Maybe they're darker at the start of the season?


Some Gorgeous Tulips


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