Indy (1997 - 2012)

I was browsing through a number of posts on Greytalk a few days ago when I saw in the Remembrance forum that Indy the whippet had passed last month. His owner Cindy had asked me to do a session with him (along with greyhounds Dante, Goose, Maverick, and Zoe) in Gettysburg last year. She wanted to get some pictures because he was not well at the time. Indy had lived a rough 11-plus years before he was adopted by Cindy, but she had cared for him for (at the time) three-and-a-half years after that and was truly in his forever home.

We met at the Irish Brigade monument. I told Cindy that we'd walk around the monument and then up the hill above the Loop and to the field above beyond it but only if Indy was up to it. At first I was not sure that Indy go much beyond the monument, but he was game.

He kept up with his greyhound companions.

And then we proceeded to walk up a footpath to the field above the Loop; we took a few more pictures there. I thought that having Cindy walk her pack of hounds might make a nice group picture, so she went up the road with everyone in tow:

Something about this image gets me.

Indy, wherever you are, I was lucky to have met you.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 18-200mm VR zoom; program mode; +0.7 exposure compensation; matrix-metered; cloudy white balance, shot in RAW.)