Photography by Arlene

Welcome to my website. My passion is photography and I average 4,000 pictures per hockey session. I take my camera everywhere.

Here's a bit of my personal history, in 2000, I self-published a reference directory called Kidding Around Calgary, The Ultimate Resource for Parents, Grandparents and Caregivers. I had to sell this endevour because by the end of 2000 we were living in New York City, followed by a move to The Netherlands in 2001. We lived in The Netherlands in a small southern town called Best for almost five years. We moved back to Calgary, Alberta in August 2005.

In 2008, I started a non-profit organization called SAFE - Calgary or Stuffed Animals for Emergencies. Since starting SAFE in Calgary I have collected over 10,000 stuffies and have distributed 9,000 gently used cleaned stuffed animals to agencies in and surrounding Calgary. Unfortunately, in April 2010 I made my last donation of 1,000 stuffed animals to a summer camp. This organization became too large for one person to run so I had to make the decision to close this chapter in Calgary. There is such a need for this program in Calgary, if you are reading this and have an interest to carry on where I left off, please contact me and I can get you started on re-opening SAFE in Calgary. Or you can contact www.stuffedanimalsforemergencies.org directly and they can get you started.

Thanks again for stopping by, if you have any comments or suggestions I would appreciate hearing from you, please email me arlene@spotteddog.ca

Sincerely,

Arlene

403-618-7534 (cell)