Fine Chicken Portraiture: Jamie Bree Portrait Design

Most people don't give a lot of thought to chickens, but really they are fun and affectionate animals with hilarious personalities! Am I really going to become a professional chicken photographer? No. Seriously, I think chickens might be harder to photograph than two year olds!

Doodle the rooster is a Bantam chicken. Bantam's are "miniature" chickens. Usually roosters are bigger than hens (and dare I say meaner?), but this one is so, so small. About half the size of the other chickens!


This chicken was a little shy, but also curious. It probably was strange that I was laying in the driveway with a camera (you have to get down on the chicken's level to really capture their beauty, right??), so this chicken (name unknown) hid behind a brick pillar and then would peek out the side to get a look at what I was doing.


Sunrise is one of our favorite chickens. This chicken, along with her sister "Pipi," is one that we got from Boones Ferry Elementary School. When we got them they were tiny, fluffy little babies that grew to be part of our family.


I don't know the official name for this breed of chicken, but I call them "Puff Heads." I can't tell you how much time I spent getting really close trying to find out where, exactly their eyes are! How do they even see?? The Poof Heads were especially hard to photograph because they "swarmed" me, pecking at my fingers and camera.