Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

Shortest First

A Black Sumatra rooster with glossy green-black plumage and a long tail, upright like a gentleman in a bottle-green velvet smoking jacket in a wood-panelled library at night, standing on a footstool before a leather wingback chair, an open book on a small side table under a green-shaded brass lamp and a tall stack of cloth-bound books beside him

Thirteen Under the Lamp

The longest of this year's thirteen runs past six hundred pages. He begins with the shortest, on tactical grounds, and puts the longest at the bottom of the pile, where it can wait.

28 July 2026

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