time off for good behaviour

I'm outa here too.. I have a CV 21mm waiting for me at my local shop 🙂

New toys are fun.. even if they put you into hock for a bit 🙂

Cheers
Dave
 
good i/2 day off - bad shooting though

didn't see much that caught my eye.

i hate it when that happens.

but there IS a big tatoo convention in town this weekend, maybe i'll put on a sleeveless shirt and head out.

joe
 
I've always thought that tattooed folks would make easy and interesting portrait subjects. You've got an easy "pick-up" line: Hey that's a great tattoo, can I take a picture of it?
 
Tattoo's are a part of San Diego culture. I suppose it started a long time ago with the Navy.

The current crowd are pretty hardcore. There are tons of parlors surrounding my office at 7th and Broadway. I see gatherings outside of these daily. It's part of a subculture here. The shops alone are very colorful. Some shops look like the art you would see at carnival side shows, brilliantly colored and freaky in a horror show kind of way. The shops themselves would be great photo subjects.

It's funny to me though, since it is now fairly common to see "tatts" on soccer moms and grannies. Used to be that one did it to stand out. But here you would be one of the sheep.

In the early eighties I considered having a bar code tattooed on my arm detailing information about me. Blood type, date and place of birth. A statement on how we were all just numbers to some great machine. The idea didn't go over well with my girlfriend at the time. "too creepy"
 
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