Portrait Photography - Raven and Baby

I absolutely adore this photograph of my wonderful always-unschooled Raven, aged almost 14, with BFF Baby the Mille Fleur Frizzle Bantam making like the World's cutest, silliest, most improbable Barbour hat accessory!

It was taken on a rare day of brilliant Spring sunshine and you can see that they are both revelling in it. I love these two so, so much. Just looking at this image makes me feel warm inside, even though it's SO cold that I'm sitting here in a down jacket indoors right now!

'Raven and Baby' by Jay Taylor

This shot was taken on my Olympus OMD-EM1, using a Panasonic Lumix G Vario 45-200mm lens which I love for portrait work like this. The image was taken in RAW format and then developed by hand in Adobe Lightroom. I have resisted applying filters or effects of any kind to it or editing out imperfections in any way because I just love the realness of the capture. I feel really privileged and blessed to have been given permission by Raven to share this spontaneous, loving moment with all of you.

I hope that in sharing this image of two species interacting with love, trust and innocent wonder, I can bring a little joy and laughter to your Steemit world today; and maybe even a little sense of how wonderful chickens can be as non-human companions. We certainly derive a huge amount of pleasure from their company, and as I hope you can see from this image, the feeling is clearly mutual <3

Good luck to all the entrants in this week's Portrait contest - fingers crossed for my two BFFs!

With love,

Jay x

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