Our photo shoot on our 3rd day of Barkelona was in the evening in a small seaside town called Sitges. Check out these google images if you're not familiar with the town. I loved it and could've spent several days hanging out here. It was about a 15 minute ride from our villa in Olivella. When we arrived in Sitges we were paired up into smaller groups and I was with Joanne Brown of Big Bernese Photography. Joanne and I got along great during the workshop and we stay in touch and talk on the phone frequently. She and I are both starting up our photography businesses so we have a lot of discussions about our business models, pricing and most recently on website development. It is so nice to have someone I like and respect to bounce ideas off of and someone who is going through a lot of the same stuff I am right now. Here is one of Joanne's recent photos:

Back to day 3 at Barkelona, shortly after arriving in Sitges, the dogs we would be photographing joined us. I was immediately drawn to the chow named Bimbo and this photo location was the suggestion of Kaylee Greer of Dog Breath Photography. We'd actually spent about 30 minutes photographing him, then we photographed another dog (that'll be my next post!) We'd photographed a dachshund in this doorway and Kaylee said, we need a taller dog. Bimbo was walking by with his owners and we asked if he'd model for us some more. He did and this is the result.

Every time I see this photo of Bimbo, I get emotional. It brings back all of the emotion from this trip: the memories, the people, the food and the incredible experience that it was.

Here is another favorite of mine of Bimbo. He was so good, especially for a puppy. He was off leash the entire time and occasionally he'd wander of a little so his dad would pick him up and put him back in place. I smile every time I see this photo.

I have a ton of photos of him. Here are a few more.

I don't know why but when I look at photos of Bimbo I get super melancholy. I miss Spain the most it seems when I look at photos of him. Perhaps because I used to have a chow named Bear and I get the same feelings every time I think of Bear.

I miss this dog. I miss this town. I miss all the beautiful doors in this town.... it was amazing. I hope to make it back some day. BARKography in Sitges.... omg!!!!

I officially launched BARKography on June 11th and here is the new logo design. When I decided to start a photography division I tacked on photography to See Spot Run and then later learned that the name was trademarked by another photographer. Before that led to any issues, I decided to be proactive and change the name, hence BARKography. Once I decided on the name, the next process was developing a logo. Here is the winning design:

Another attendee at Barkelona referred me to 99Designs.com. 99Designs.com is a site where you can have graphic artists from around the world enter a contest to design your logo. I originally thought I wanted a logo using my dog Moose but all of the designs using him looked like clipart to me. The original artwork submitted to me was this:

I was immediately drawn to it but I wasn't sure it was exactly what I wanted. After a few days of going back and forth on ideas with the artist, he created this and I love it! What do you think?