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Has anyone started a thread to showcase their tattoos? Nicci

My experience as editor of this forum is that most folks don't have someplace decent to host the pics from.

Also, having the actual gist of the topic in the subject line gets better responses than a sentence fragment....

Rae,
I appreciate your input and certainly your friendliness doing it. My thought is that most of us have our own computers and digital cameras. It would be fairly simple to add an image it appears although I must say, I have not done so. Nicci

It's almost nothing to produce a good image, but in order to post a picture here, it must be uploaded to the web somewhere else.... and although in San Francisco, where I live, many people have their own web site, most folks still do not.

Also, TONS of sites that used to let you upload a picture and then link to it elsewhere, called remote hosting, now block that from being possible. Hosting from your own site can get expensive if you get a lot of traffic and/or if you don't optimize the files to a nice small size.

I did a thread back in January to showcase my latest work which you can see at
http://www.bellaonline.com/code/ubb/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=25;t=000063

Rae,
The work is just beautiful. I just finished my 4th tattoo and I love them more than ever. I cannot nor will not put a picture on my body that has no meaning to me. You put some indepth thought into yours. Awesome..Nicci

Thanks, Nicci!

This last one was about three years in the planning and conceiving. I find that as I'm getting older, there are longer time periods between my tattoos, with the work becoming more integrated and much more personal. A lot of my tattoos are starting to express my sense of self and spirituality.

It's funny, the way a lot of people tell me how well all my tattoo work goes together, as if I put no thought into that.... I can't imagine not thinking about it! LOL....

I know. The first tattoo I got was about 10 years ago. I went to the tattoo gallery and thought I would get a typical panther or what not, but as I looked around, I came upon a mask. It wasn't the theater mask, but a rather haunting tribal mask of a ladies solemn face. I had to have it. I realized awhile later, there was a definite reason I chose it. I was living with a huge mask over my whole life. Now my husband or I design my own. I cannot understand why anyone would put a random tattoo on their bodies.