Knowing that you lied, straight faced while I cried...

...still I'd look to find a reason to believe.

Thanks for stopping in to my blog, here are some new tattoos, a few photos from around the studio, and some street photography to wrap it up.

I've been making a fair amount of chest tattoos lately, and I'm super hyped on the opportunity and the results i've been getting.  Chests are, in my opinion, about the most powerful and elegant tattoos one can wear, and it feels dope to be entrusted to do them.

Symmetrical Cedar bough chest tattoo - Winter 2025

American Bittern 

Canadian Goose

I love this grasshopper tattoo - that is all...

@boreal.cowboy_ on Instagram

And the homie Ky added this spiky floral tattoo to the back side to round out this forearm.

Wisteria

My favourite crow tattoo to date for sure! On a great old client, thanks Artemis!

My books are open, and if you'd like to come for a tattoo or a consultation, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com . 

@ladymyes on Instagram

This is Myes, my apprentice.  I'm excited to see her begin to make tattoos the last couple weeks.  Learning to tattoo is definitely a humbling experience, especialy for someone like her who is so cautious as her.  She focuses on fineline tradition tattoos in a European, turn of the century style.

The Future looks bright for this one!

Thanks for looking, you can find me at my studio:

Ritual Winnipeg

Tuesday-Friday, 10-6

420 - 70 Arthur Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba.

We've been open for a year and a half now, and it's really a dream come true.  The studio is big and bright, absolutely full of original art, and we have a big crew of all kinds of different people.  

Ritual is mainly about trying to elevate the standard of care in tattooing in Winnipeg.  I've worked really hard to try to put into place processes by which people can begin to expect client-centred care, and a true informed-consent model in a tattoo studio in this city.

@ruthtattoos on Instagram

This month we have Ruth coming on to join us.  They have been tattooing for three years, and do mainly colourful neo-traditional work.

@alyssamayart on Instagram

Alyssa has been with us for a few months now and it's been nice having someone who is a little more like I was when I was young in my career, exploring all types of styles and images.

@yourbuddyholly_ on Instagram

This beautiful piece by Holly came through my room the other day too.  Holly is going to be working flash-only a couple days a week at the studio for the next little while, keep your eye on her Instagram profile for booking information.

I'm still having a great time shooting with my new camera, here are some photographs from around my neighborhood and my daily commute.

The starlings were on the block for that really rough cold-snap we had last week.

Someone on Insta asked what I shoot these nature photos with, It's my Nikon zf with a Tamron 500mm Reflex lens.

I'm pretty much sick of this lens by now, cause it's just pretty soft all around, so I think I'm gonna invest in a 600 come spring, but I'm sure I'll miss how compact the reflex lens is.

My kid Sam shot this one with the new Nikkor Z 50mm f1.4

I've never had a new lens, much less an autofocus lens, it's been fun checking it out.  It looks so much like the Ai-s 50mm f1.4, but close focuses just a little closer, so I took the plunge, cause I wanted a native autofocus lens for video stuff... 

This is the close-focus on that 50.

Spring is comin!

And this one shows the vignetting on that 50 pretty well.

Thank you so much for looking,

-Bram

 

November 2024 - Tattoos, The Studio, and Around the City

Hi, welcome to the blog.  I'll start off with a few new tattoos I like, followed by some photos around the studio and ending off with some recent photography.

As always, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoo bookings

My favourite set of knuckles by far.  This is a design that is traditional to her family, and it was an honour to make such a pretty tattoo.  Please do not copy her traditional design!

Frog and Dodecahedron, from my flash designs.

Chrysanthemums

A mighty goose!

Another frog from my available flash designs.

A crow and some flowers, well-settled.

Fireweed

Peonies

Geranium

Pussy Willow, one of my favourite recent tattoos.

I absolutely love this grasshopper and fly design, and was so stoked to get to tattoo it.

A couple available designs...

...and a custom for a friend.

The next handful of images are from around the studio.  You can find me Tuesday-Friday at my studio, Ritual Tattoo, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I work with a handful of wonderful artists.

My Friend Ky made this great howling wolf design at our Halloween walk-in day this year.  I was excited to do walk-ins,  it had been a while, and i was nervous, but it reminded me that some people vibe way better with walk-ins than the whole booking rigamaroll...

A sneaky little photo of my new coworker Alyssa.

Ky tattooing Ezra

Ezra coolin'

Ezra Tattooing

Ky, the resident sad boy.

A really cool Hyena by Ezra

The Homie Jade is visiting right now from Vancouver, she made the flash sheet above.

Jade Tattooing.

My apprentice Myes's drawings.

It's great to have Myes learning from all the guests that we have coming through.  Here she is sitting in on one of Jade's appointments, Jade being my first apprentice, and Myes my second!

A little gem from Ky.

More of Jade tattooing.

Please do check out the Studio's instagram, we are @ritual_winipeg on instagram, and you can find all of our individual accounts from there.  

The Rest of this blog are just some random photos from around my neighborhood/life...  Enjoy, and Thanks for looking!

-Bram