Nice choice and very well done!

Oh, and for whatever reason it reminds me of this poster. I bought a copy of it at the one and only Solistice Parade I managed to go to:

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This was a great choice, WolfDaddy! I love it!

Nice. I love it.

I, too, am getting a tattoo based on Mullacc's suggestion.

Totally gorgeous and perfect.

no, that wasn't for you, wolfdaddy - that was for sasshat.

jk.

I really like your Zia tattoo. Did you also live in New Mexico?

Nice, although it looks a bit like a furry pac-man ;-)

Oooo I like that one, WolfDaddy! And that solstice poster is gorgeous, deborah.

Wow, deborah, that Solstice poster is awesome! I loved the Solstice parade, because you just never knew what to expect from year to year.

sambosambo, yes I lived in New Mexico in my early teens to early twenties. I have a deep fondness for the southwestern United States as a result.

Oh, one more thing. Does the tattoo look a bit like it should belong in a Firefox icon set? It should, because I found the original design on which the tattoo was based by reading this article about the creation of the Firefox icon set we all know and love today.

And the original design was of coursed based on this somewhat famous image.

Very nice!
Mine in that location hurt a lot, too. I think it's because there's not a lot of fat or muscle padding around the bones themselves at that joint on most people.

I have to make an appt. for my next... I'm getting backseams done up both my legs, but instead of plain lines it's going to be the stylized graphic for a lockstitch that most sewing machines have on them near the tension adjustment. (IE something like this, although this is clearer.) Mine'll be the markings from my actual machine, the Singer style, and the lines will be blue and purple, to go with the existing tattoos.

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This is the design we chose for our 5th anniversary. It's more perfectly circled than the picture (bad angle - quick shot of the one on my husband's ankle). Signifies infinity and the circle of life. After everything we went through this year, we both wanted something to represent where we are and our feelings for each other.

redvixen, the color in that is amazing! I love the color choices, and the artist did a great job blending them into each other.

Beautiful color and shading indeed, redvixen! Very nice and vibrant.

Should we start a subset flickr group of Mechazens tattoos? Seems like a number of us are enthusiasts.

I'm surprised how much more color is appearing in my new tattoo now that some time has passed. The blues are popping and becoming more vibrant and there's actually some hints of gray in some of the ocean foam and at the most "bottom" portion of the wave. Shading is more evident now. Once it gets all healed I'll post a better pic because it really looks nicer than the original pic I posted, and that looked nice to start with.

I've really enjoyed hunting for different symbols and designs for my tattoos (that I hope have a level of uniqueness and beauty to them), and can't believe the compliments I'm getting from people of all types about them. This has been a most rewarding experience.

I just discovered yesterday that my tattoo parlor is, apparently, VERY gay-friendly, and has consistently won "best of" awards from all the polls that the various print media--mainstream, alternative, queer--put on every year. Bonus!

Well, thank you for the compliments! Below is a tattoo the same artist did for Mr.V of a cigar smoking tiki. His shading is superb!!

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WOW, that's like 3d man! Coooooool!

Hee, now we match, wolfdaddy!
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I love my Hokusai back.

That's awesome mgl! How did you post the pic into your flickr comment? That was cool and I wanna return the favor so we're totally twins. Or something like that. That tattoo is beautiful!