Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

All Comers

A Red Sussex rooster with smooth deep mahogany-red plumage, a black-edged tail and a single red comb, in a bottle-green velvet waistcoat with small brass buttons, standing on worn pale limestone steps outside the arched oak west door of a Gothic stone cathedral, an old basset hound sitting patiently at the top of the steps before the door and a tabby cat peering out of a wicker carrier on the step beside him, a few fallen yellow leaves on the stone, soft early-autumn afternoon light

His Turn Comes After the Hound

One afternoon a year the great door takes anyone with fur, feathers or a shell, and asks no questions about which. He has been on the steps since half past one, behind a basset hound who is clearly a regular, in the green waistcoat he keeps for occasions that might turn out to be solemn.

4 October 2026

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