Castle Stalker, Scotland (by Etienn281)
got this in august 2011, it’s my biggest one as of now.
Done my Joe at Area 51 in Illinois. I got this tattoo because I’ve loved hot air balloons all my life. And it reminds me of spotting them as a child in the sky before all my siblings did. And every time I see it I still smile. Plus, as an added joke, I got it on my hip because if I ever get fat it’ll just look like the balloon is inflating more. :)
audrey hepburn photographed by richard avedon, 1954.
“i always prefer to work in the studio. it isolates people from their environment. they become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. i often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller—to find out how they are. so theyre dependent on me. i have to engage them. otherwise theres nothing to photograph. the concentration has to come from me and involve them. sometimes the force of it grows so strong that sounds in the studio go unheard. time stops. we share a brief, intense intimacy. but its unearned. it has no past… no future. and when the sitting is over—when the picture is done—theres nothing left except the photograph… the photograph and a kind of embarrassment. they leave… and i dont know them. ive hardly heard what theyve said. if i meet them a week later in a room somewhere, i expect they wont recognize me. because i dont feel i was really there. at least the part of me that was… is now in the photograph. and the photographs have a reality for me that the people dont. its through the photographs that i know them. maybe its in the nature of being a photographer. im never really implicated. i dont have to have any real knowledge. its all a question of recognitions.”
My simple anchor symbolizes hope.
I always keep in mind, everything is gonna be alright.
I think if you believe in that, it gets you through al lot in life.
Done at Bunker tattoo, Breda, the Netherlands.
In the Hardagenfjord, Norway
(by sanguedolces)
Kylemore Abbey, Ireland
(by jenni.rose)
CLIFF OF MOHER.
