Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

Lid On

A Red Sussex rooster with rich mahogany-red plumage and a black tail in an indigo shweshwe-cloth waistcoat with a fine white geometric print over a white shirt, standing upright with his wing tips at his hips beside a black three-legged cast-iron pot with its lid on, set over glowing coals on bare earth, wood smoke drifting, a wooden table with enamel bowls and a dry stone wall behind him, blue mountains in late-afternoon light

Guests at Six

The pot went on the coals at noon and the lid has not moved since, though he stands over it all afternoon in a manner that suggests it might.

24 September 2026

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