Valentine’s Day is Sunday!

Posted on February 11, 2010

I have to admit that I’ve never been a big fan of flowers and chocolates for Valentine’s Day. Flowers are pretty for a few days and then they start to wilt…and while chocolates are very yummy, I always feel like I need to spend the next few weeks working off all those calories! I know that it’s the thought that counts, but just as a friendly little reminder, Simply Spotted Photography offers gift certificates for any occasion. Guaranteed to provide memories that will last for a lifetime *and* 100% calorie free, custom portraits are a perfect gift for your pet loving Valentine!

Valentines Day Gift Certificates!

Payback for Peyton

Posted on January 11, 2010

Let this be a warning for cute little spotty dogs that decide to steal my Colt’s hat and parade around the house with it…

Peyton's Payback

If you want to play with my hat, that’s okay, but it’s going to end up on your head. And, of course, that means I’ll have to take pictures.

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Peyton - Dalmatian

Poor Peyton. Lucky for him, he’s extremely cute (and very charming) – I’ve never met a Dalmatian that didn’t use both of those traits to their advantage! I will say, no matter how many thousands of pictures I take of Peyton, I will never tire of his expressions. I’m so lucky to have such fun and animated dogs – they are such a great source of inspiration for my work.

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Happy Holidays

Posted on December 24, 2009

We wish you all joy and happiness this holiday season!

Kim, Pongo, Peyton & Indy
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Happy Holidays from Simply Spotted Photography

Traveling Spotty

Posted on July 16, 2009

Peyton and I are still trying to recover from our last two weekends of agility trialing, but I thought I would share a few pictures of my spotty boy, who has decided that staying in a hotel is great fun! We stayed at the Microtel in Perry Georgia and I have to say this was a wonderful hotel – the rooms were a little on the small side, but clean and very modern. And best of all, they had fresh chocolate chip cookies every night!

If you are interested in seeing some of our runs, they can be viewed on my YouTube channel. Peyton and I both agree that traveling is downright exhausting!

Sweet Peyton

Sleepy Spotty

Just Chillin'!

Bored Spotty!

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Road Trip!

Posted on July 7, 2009

These past few weeks have been very busy around here! I spent last weekend at a statewide agility competition in Orlando and tomorrow I’m leaving for Perry, Georgia for a 4 day AKC agility trial. All this trial preparation has left very little time for sharing pictures, but I promise I’ll work on getting caught up next week!

In the meantime, Indy would like to remind everyone to take some time to get out and enjoy summer! 

Crazed Spotty!

Twitter Fame

Posted on June 18, 2009

A few months ago I decided to join Twitter…I was a little skeptical at first, but thought it might be a fun way to send quick little updates about my spotty dogs, especially while we are away at agility trials. Well, I found out quickly how addicting ”tweeting” can be and have since formed little friendships with other “tweeters” here in Florida and all over the world.  Well, in addition to being a cool way to connect with like-minded ”tweeps”, there’s also an abundance of fun little contests you can enter. I think I’ve only entered one so far, but it’s by far the coolest one I’ve come across  - Pet portrait artist Aimée Hoover in Southern California is having a monthly contest where you can enter to win a free custom portrait of your dog. And keeping with the Twitter theme of 140 characters or less, she’s doing these portraits in 140 minutes – and they are absolutely beautiful!

This month I decided to enter two of Pongo’s pictures in her contest. Not because I don’t have a ton of  Indy and Peyton pictures that I love just as much, but since Pongo is my original spotty dog, I think he’s probably the most deserving of a custom portrait. And well, to make this long story short(er), he didn’t win, but he did get first runner up! Aimée really likes his picture, but apparently painting a (good) spotted dog portrait in 140 minutes would be extremely difficult. Sigh, leave it to a Dalmatian to be impossible in more ways than one!

Anyway, I am just excited that we made the honorable mention list…and I think it’s very cool that Pongo is getting some attention. Poor guy has to put up with Peyton and Indy being in the spotlight most of the time! I’ve included a black and white version of my entry below, but please go check out Aimée’s blog to see it in color and be sure to check out her galleries – she does awesome work (and she might just have me convinced to have this portrait done some day)!

If you happen to be on twitter, you can follow Aimée (aka DogArteest) here and you can follow me (aka Agilespots) here. Who knows, maybe you could be her next custom portrait winner!

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Peyton – The Clown

Posted on May 30, 2009

Peyton

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Indy – The Middle Child

Posted on May 30, 2009

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Pongo – The Original Spotty

Posted on May 30, 2009

The Original Spotty

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Welcome!

Posted on May 28, 2009

Welcome to Simply Spotted Photography – The Blog!
Please meet three of my very best friends and the inspiration behind Simply Spotted Photography – Indy, Peyton & Pongo. We sincerely hope you enjoy the images that will be featured on this site, and come back to visit often!

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