Friday, February 18, 2011

Day Four

One of the reasons I picked BA is that I have two friends here - Aurora and Diego. We met in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) when I attended my first Santa Fe workshop. Diego was in my group and Aurora was one of our models.





The day before I got here she suffered burns on her face from hot war stewing tomatoes. She is getting better by the day. Auro is a jeweler and originally from Kerrville, TX. She is the subject of one of the best pictures I have ever taken.

Diego is a working artist who also is a tattoo artist. Today I got to be in his studio as he was completing the second stage of a tattoo on a 19 year old boy.









See, aren't the people beautiful.





It was a small space and the light was tricky but my new Nikon D7000 rose to the occasion. The tattoo series is wonderful, even unedited as all of these pictures are (unedited).





It did not seem to be all fun.

They have a beautiful 7-year-old daughter Trini.










That is Aurora's arm. I haven't gotten my tattoo yet.

I have proportion problems with my pictures when they are in the fullest RAW format.


Location:Buenos Aires

1 comment:

  1. Good grief. That cannot be fun to get a tattoo on that part of the anatomy. I've often wanted to get a tattoo and have the idea picked out and have for years, but there's something so...temporally limiting about it, imposition of a snapshot of your mood and aesthetics at that moment on the rest of your life. Like a public and widely attended marriage...

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