Just A LIttle Tattoo - Honest

Cool, Thank you for the invite. I have about half a dozen tattoo shots of these guys from Tokyo :o)

Hi Tama, I totally agree some people have tats that just merge into a BLOB and lose the art. I really like this one and another of a dragon that I photographed.

Cheers Anita, Yes, they were some of the clearest and most detailed tattoos I had ever seen and in the sunshine they were like paintings.

Hi Karin, Thank you very much for your sweet comment.
Yes he was a character for ‘shirt off’ and posing and dancing.
This is actually as new a shot to me as it is to you – cos I ‘found’ this shot as I was looking through my photos just yesterday.

Thank you very much,
I was concentrating so much on the tattoo and getting his elbows in frame that I hadnt realised that I had captured a nice face profile too. Photography is partly luck – if the photographer is honest. :o)

Hi salsbells69,
Thank you.
‘Fraid these guys aint as scary as yakuza :o)
These guys are Tokyo Rockabilly Club who meet every Sunday.
A couple of them have large back tattoos. A yakuza tatt is – as I have come to find out – called a ‘suit’. This is where the full back is tattooed – no spaces – normally a subject from Japanese theatre or other subjects and then the tattoo with no skin to be seen – travels down each arm to the wrists – also on the legs covering all skin down to their ankles.

I was having a 3 strikes and you’re out kinda day – oh I see its gone into the next day so I am free from the ‘Friday curse’.
I see on youtube that this guy has since dyed his hair blond :o(
Cheers Dogfish, one of my best shots of the Harajuku guys. I maybe have a few more tattoo shots of these guys I will keep sifting through my Japan files :o) thanks again, GTS.

Cheers again, Dogfish. They are certainly a bunch of characters the Tokyo Rockabilly Club. It was and is some special artwork. Just like this friends Dragon tattoo.

Hi KImba Cheers for the invite – I am on my way, Regards,

Hi Scott, This is def in my top five photos of ones taken in Harajuku – to capture the split second of this guy not moving outta frame and trying to close in on his elbows as much as poss.
Thank you for such an encouraging comment.