Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

In Profile

A Lavender Orpington rooster with soft, even lavender-grey plumage and a red single comb, in a charcoal wool waistcoat over a high white starched collar and a black silk stock, cut to fit a bird, standing in strict side profile facing left on a straw bale inside an old stone barn, scaled rooster legs and talons on the straw, a pale golden barn owl perched on a dark oak beam above him looking towards the camera, warm low autumn sunlight falling through the open barn door

A Barn Owl, Unbothered

Four were chosen out of eighteen, and he was never among the eighteen, which he has decided is the cleaner result. He has spent the afternoon facing left in his best collar all the same, in case anyone should come round asking for a likeness. The owl in the rafters, who made the final four, keeps her own counsel on the matter.

8 October 2026

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