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How many do you know like her?

I have found peacocks to be one of the most difficult subjects to photograph. They always look like....well, peacocks. At the very least you need to get them fanning their feathers....the sun shining through the feathers from the back so that they glow, and a sympathetic background. And even after all of that they still just look like ...peacocks. I've shot them in colour, black and white, on medium format film. slide film, colour neg film. Still nothing special. A subject that is just beyond me and I'm still waiting to see a knockout peacock image from someone who has more luck than me. Your image looks very similar to many of mine. My guess is that the only way we'll nail this bird is to put it on a golden perch in a house stuffed full of glorious antique fine furniture, the bird lit by a shaft of light piercing through a hand made glass 4 paned window. Shot with a 105mm lens on a Hasselblad 40MP digital camera. Now that just might work.

Thank you for your comments, Matt. Of course, you are aware I don't have any of the above.

How about an axe and a saucepan?

An oven! Turkey roast?