Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

Exposure

A La Flèche rooster with glossy black plumage, a white earlobe and a red comb, upright like a gentleman in a black frock coat, white high-collared shirt and black silk cravat, wing feathers folded at his cuffs, standing on the plum velvet seat of a carved wooden chair in a glass-roofed nineteenth-century portrait studio, an iron posing stand beside him and a large wooden bellows camera on a tripod facing him in soft daylight

Daylight, Several Minutes

In the beginning a portrait meant minutes without moving, an iron brace behind the head and the sun full in the face. He has asked to be done the old way, and has not blinked since the cap came off the lens.

19 August 2026

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