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Kippy Spilker

@kippy.geminai.com

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Photographer and Creative Manager, I'm a Buddhist-wannabe, hoping to make a difference. Avid reader, enthusiastic kayaker, inexperienced bicyclist, mediocre hiker. Married to my best friend, and mom to fur-kids only. Brevity is not one of my virtues.

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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · 28d

Popping in here to THANK YOU for coming out west on your tour! Unfortunately I have heavy deadlines the week you'll be near me, or I'd have definitely been there. I hope you have a great trip, and I can meet you another time. :) Looking so forward to the new book!

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 31

Thank you! Only just over 2 weeks in, but he is doing extremely well! :)

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 30

Two weeks ago we drove through a snowstorm to meet Gerald, who became our new family member that day. Caught as a stray with wounds consistent with jumping or being thrown from a moving car, he has brought that beautiful lab energy back to our home. He is very loved. Dets in alt text. #adopt #dogs

Gerald's first time out in our yard.

Two dogs, one black lab and one white husky mix, roll on the grass on their backs. There is a fence and a bush in the background and the wall to a house in the left.

We were told Gerald is not interested in sleeping on beds. :)

Three dogs snuggle on a colorful bedspread. One black lab, one white husky mix, one brown shepherd mix.

We were also told Gerald wasn't interested in sleeping on couches.

A small white husky mix and black lab mix sleep on a couch while a brown shepherd mix sleeps on a dog bed in the background in a living room.

Gerald's first day smiling. About a week after joining our family, he finally started smiling.

A black lab smiles up at the camera. There is a wooden stand to the left and tan rugs on a wooden floor.

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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 30

Good for the soul! Thank you, my friend. :)

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 10

Yesterday we saw a lot of #SomethingBeautiful during a gorgeous day paddle on Mono Lake, outside Yosemite National Park. After exploring the south tufa, we spent time on geothermal Paoha Island. What a great day to be in the caldera of a volcano.

#PhotographersUnited #Kayaking #Tufa #Geothermal

The bow of a wooden kayak, on blue-green water, faces a wall of tufa spires sticking out of, and reflected in, the water. On top of one of them is an osprey nest.

Geothermal activity along the shore of Paoha Island. There are rocks and bushes, with steam rising up among them. In the background is a walkable mud surface and more scrub/sagebrush.

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 3

I'm lucky in that much of my job relies on me finding #SomethingBeautiful in our state. This was taken on one of those days, where our staff went kayaking on Lake Tahoe, in clear-bottomed boats. I took this photo of a beautiful day 'hard at work.'

#PhotographersUnited
#ILoveMyJob
#DronePhotography

An aerial (drone) photo looking down into the clear aquamarine waters of Lake Tahoe. There are large boulders, and a group of people in clear-bottomed kayaks visible.

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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 3

Thank you, as always, for such a fantastic compliment. ❤

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Mar 2

#SomethingBeautiful in a quick cell phone snap, while on a bike ride today. This blue heron patiently allowed me to take a photo. Loved the reflections.

#Wildlifephotography
#CellPhonePhotography
#PhotographersUnited
#Photography
#Booksky
#Herons

A blue heron is reflected, along with a bit of the snow-capped mountains, in a calm pond, surrounded by dormant grasses. There are wispy clouds in the blue sky.

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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Feb 27

I love that! And can so relate with missing one's own pup! I feel like the longer I'm away from ours, when traveling, the more desperately I accost any dog I come across. Haha. I love these photo shoots - any shoot with dogs is a win, but even moreso when there are this many!

Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Feb 26

If you've traveled through the Reno-Tahoe Int'l Airport, you may have encountered #SomethingBeautiful of the canine persuasion - the volunteers of Paws 4 Passengers. Leaving smiles in their wake, they are 4-legged angels. Their people aren't too bad, either. ;)

#PhotographersUnited
#Dogs
#Flying

A group of people in red shirts, with their respective dogs (of all sizes and breeds), pose in front of an Air Force plane at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The blue sky has big puffy clouds in it.

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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · Feb 24

#SomethingBeautiful, for sure! A sign that spring is on the way, when the stonecrop starts waking up. :)

#CellPhonePhotography #PhotographersUnited #SpringIsComing #Succulents #Stonecrop #Gardening