Tattoo Arts Festival 2009

Brandon Beach, 26, of Snellville displays a tattoo of his late friend Adam Pierce, who was shot recently outside the Last Great Watering Hole. Judging the tattoo in the "realistic" competition are, from left, Mel Gale, 33, with Straight A Tattoo in Ashboro, NC, Kim Kruseman, 30, with Memorial Tattoo in Atlanta, LaLa Hartline, 27, with Evermore Galleries in Chattanooga, TN, and Rachel Jenkins, 25, with Sacred Heart tattoo in Atlanta. ELISSA EUBANKS / eeubanks@ajc.com