German Shepherds · Volume One, pages 1 and 2
Gordon, the bouncy German Shepherd, and the sister he was promised
Some families tell you what they plan to do next. Penny told us in the same breath as her thank-you.
She had spent a morning at the studio with her German Shepherd, Gordon, and she wrote about it afterwards:
We spent the morning with Simon at his studio with my bouncy 20 month old GSD, Gordon. Simon did a brilliant job in getting some amazing shots of Gordon.
Then came the plan:
An experience I highly recommend and we will definitely do an update shoot when Gordon gets a brother or sister down the track! Thanks!
Twenty months and bouncy
Twenty months is a good age to photograph a German Shepherd, and a busy one. The legs and ears have arrived, the puppy energy has not left, and the dog has not yet decided that sitting still is ever a sensible idea. "Bouncy" is the word every owner of a shepherd that age reaches for.
The promise kept
The portrait at the top of this page is the update shoot. Gordon is on the left, a deep red and black, with grey now coming through on his chin. Beside him, tongue out and ears straight up, is his sister, Daisy.
She did not arrive the easy way. Their page in German Shepherds of Australia, Volume One tells it in one line:
Gordon rescued Pen. And then Gordon and Pen rescued Daisy.
Daisy came home when Gordon was four. She was six months old and, in the family's words, "recovering from a very traumatic and broken start to life". Gordon worked it out straight away:
From the moment Gordon and Daisy met, he could sense how broken Daisy was and took her under his wing by being the most amazing big brother.
The first page of Volume One
Gordon and Daisy open the book, on pages 1 and 2, under the title "The jackpot of love". Their page ends the way their days do, with cuddles, and with a line that would suit any family that took a chance on a rescue dog:
You make your own luck in life, and Pen, Gordon and Daisy won the jackpot of love!
German Shepherds of Australia, Volume One holds more than 200 German Shepherds, each with a portrait and a few lines from the family who knows them best. It has raised over $22,000 for German Shepherd Rescue Victoria.