Tattoo Artist Ronnie Cyndi

WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge this week asks us to post something that’s unusual (in some way for you). If you’ve seen my previous post, you already know that I was in Belfast during the weekend to attend the 4th Titanic International Tattoo Convention.

Tattoo artist Ronnie Cyndi.

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Thailand Tattoo Expo 2017 – part 3

There were lots of people at Thailand Tattoo Expo and a dense population of beautiful, tattooed women. I like it like that.

I think I’m in love…

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Thailand Tattoo Expo 2017 – part 2

Welcome to the second part of my photo gallery from Thailand Tattoo Expo 2017.

Ajarn Krit

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Linas Tattoo Convention 2017 – Part 3

Here’s the last gallery from Linas Tattoo Convention 2017.

Jessy Nourry bodypainting Lucrezia Duchessa

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questa casa non è un albergo

Thanks Lily Clic Photographie / Virgile Jourdan for taking my portraits at Linas Tattoo Convention this weekend.

Photo: Lily Clic Photographie / Virgile Jourdan

Photo: Lily Clic Photographie / Virgile Jourdan

Photo: Lily Clic Photographie / Virgile Jourdan

Photo: Lily Clic Photographie / Virgile Jourdan

Resilient Retrospective 2016

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Here’s my resilient retrospective post for the last photo challenge I’ll participate in this year. I didn’t shoot all these photos in 2016, but I edited and posted them in 2016.

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Manuella Ana | Salon International du tatouage

A few photos of Manuella Ana while she was working at the tattoo convention in Marseille this weekend – Salon International du tatouage, Marseille.

You can see more photos of Manuella Ana in my Flickr gallery: https://flic.kr/s/aHskNnVfKk
I’ll also upload more photos from the tattoo convention to the gallery during the next days.

Tattooed Guys at Warsaw Tattoo Convention 2016

Here’s a follow-up from yesterday’s post with tattooed girls. Now you get the chance to meet some of the men I crossed paths with at Warsaw Tattoo Convention. If you would like to see all my photos from this convention, follow the link to Flickr after this gallery.

See the full gallery here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskF9tXeR

I don’t agree, but some people might use the word Transmogrify (“To change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”) to describe tattoos. Transmogrify is the theme for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge this week. You can see more entries for that challenge if you visit WordPress: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/transmogrify/

Tattooed Girls at Warsaw Tattoo Convention 2016

Meet some of the beautiful, wonderful, sexy, lovely girls/women/ladies I crossed paths with at Warsaw Tattoo Convention. If you would like to see all my photos from this convention, follow the link to Flickr after this gallery.

See the full gallery here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskF9tXeR

I don’t agree, but some people might use the word Transmogrify (“To change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”) to describe tattoos. Transmogrify is the theme for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge this week. You can see more entries for that challenge if you visit WordPress: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/transmogrify/

Portrait of Kamila Burzymowska

This is a portrait of the wonderful Kamila Burzymowska.

Kamila Burzymowska

Kamila Burzymowska

Kamila is a portrait photographer and, just like me, she is a tattoo lover. Kamila lives in Poland and graduated from Warsaw Academy of Photography. She only works with tattooed models. You can check out her works on Facebook, Instagram or on her website: www.kamilaburzymowska.pl

Titanic International Tattoo Convention 2016 Part 5

Here’s the fifth and last gallery from the Titanic International Tattoo Convention in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Next post will be photos from the epic after-party.

Thanks to all the artists and models in this gallery!

Check out my articles on “The History of Tattoo”, plus photos from other tattoo conventions here:
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/tattoo/

Titanic International Tattoo Convention 2016 Part 4

The fourth gallery from the Titanic International Tattoo Convention in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Only one more gallery after this and then there’ll be some photos from the epic after-party.

 

Thanks to all the artists and models in this gallery!

Check out my articles on “The History of Tattoo”, plus photos from other tattoo conventions here:
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/tattoo/

Summer Portraits

Here’s a small update from my adventurous summer:

As you already know from my previous post, I went to the North of Norway with my son. After that I spent one day at home, getting ready for my next journey: a trip to Belfast with a friend to check out Titanic International Tattoo Convention. Immediately after returning from Belfast I left on a road trip to the West coast of Norway with 4 strangers – 3 from France and one from Italy. We went hiking & trekking in the Norwegian mountains – just in time before a storm hit the area and several of the roads and tourist attractions were closed.

I have tons of photos from this summer, but I haven’t processed any of them yet. Here’s a few from the last two trips, some shot with camera(s), some with phone. Some landscapes, some portraits:

Make sure to follow my official Instagram account for more updates:

Det Gode Selskab – Rooftop Party @ Rockefeller

Some photos from Det Gode Selskabs rooftop Party at Rockefeller, Oslo. 28.05.2016.

Thanks to the organizers, dj’s and the numbers of people that showed up to make this party so great!

More photos from the event here:
https://www.instagram.com/cguzmanofficial/
https://flic.kr/s/aHskAGKhwp

Inked Model @ Rooftop Party

Beautiful, inked, alternative model @ Det Gode Selskab, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo.

Beautiful, inked, alternative model @ Det Gode Selskab, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo.

This Saturday ‘Det Gode Selskab’ held an event at the rooftop of Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo.
More photos from this event will be posted shortly(-ish).

Three Generations | Family Portrait

Three generations. The photos were shot in 2008, 2009 and 2014.

Three generations. The photos were shot in 2008, 2009 and 2014.

These photos were shot during a six-year span, back in the days when life was still good: in 2008, 2009 and 2014. Two portraits and one self-portrait. The guy on the top and the guy at the bottom unfortunately never met, but they both met the guy in the middle.

Portraits: Paulina

I have plenty of portraits of beautiful models and it’s a shame (no, it’s a sin!), to let them gather dust on the hard disk. That’s why I decided to post portraits for the next coming posts in this blog.

Instead of posting them one by one, I’ve divided them into models. First one up is (the title kind of revealed it already) Paulina. I’ll share more photos of her later, but for now enjoy these two shots:

Paulina by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

Paulina by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

A Portrait of Tore

Five photos / five stories black and white challenge: This is a portrait of my friend Tore Kierulf Næss. I can’t remember exactly when I took this photo, but if I say that it was shot sometime between 2004-2009, I’m pretty sure that I’ve nailed it time-wise.

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Tore Kierulf Næss (born 21 February 1973) is a Norwegian master of philosophy, writer and art critic.

Tore Næss was an art critic for the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen from 2005-2009 and was also the founder and editor of the art magazines Kunstmagasinet and KUNSTforum. Since 2009, Kierulf Tore Næss has been a medical student at the University of Oslo and has worked as an editor for the medical student paper Æsculap during the years 2011-2013. (Source: Wikipedia).

Tore and myself once held up a whole boat when we were on our way from Turkey to Greece. We’d been enjoying some wine at a local place and suddenly realized that we had to run in order to make it to the ferry. A turkish man from the customs came running after us on the docks, while waving his arms, screaming and yelling our names. We were almost afraid to stop and thought for a brief moment that we were on the verge of being arrested and charged with something ridiculous, like being in charge of an international league of drug smugglers or something like that. When the out of breath officer caught up with us, he held our passports in his hand and said, with a heavy accent:
“Mista Nas, Mista Max, You forgot your passports”.
A large crowd of tourists stood by the gunwale on the ship and laughed heartily with us of the little scene that had just happened on the docks.

 


  • Miz Rocket challenged me to a five photos / five stories black and white challenge. This has been the first out of five posts.
  • These are the rules of this challenge:
    1) To post a black & white photo every day for 5 days.
    2) To write a story to accompany your photo for 5 days (this can be fiction or non-fiction, a page, a paragraph or a poem).
    3) To nominate a different person each day.

 

  • I’m not a big fan of rules, so I made my own interpretation to fit me:
  • 1) I’ll post 5 black & white photos in 5 different posts (on any random day and I might post other stuff in between those 5 posts).
    2) I’ll let some text accompany these 5 shots (but it might be a quote or a poem written by someone else if I don’t feel like sharing anything).
    3) I’ll nominate a different person each day. This will probably be some random who’s not actively following the blog. (We all have blog followers that you never see around, so I’m thinking that this can be a good way of interacting with them).

My first nomination is Nia from photographyofnia.com. Nia loves cats, trees & birds and she lives in the beautiful city of Istanbul (but it was pure coincidence that she lives in Turkey and that this post had a story that happened in Turkey – I didn’t know this when I nominated her). Just like me, Nia doesn’t accept awards, but she might be up for this black & white photo/story challenge?
You can see Nia’s latest post here: http://photographyofnia.com/2015/05/15/ill-be-right-here-waiting-for-you/

Edit: I just dicovered that Nia has a blog dedicated to B&W photos: https://blackandwhiteshotsofnia.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/nothing-left-to-eat/