Two sheep raise their heads toward a photographer leaning over the rail of their pen. The bare, heavily speckled heads, convex Roman noses, alert upright ears, and fine dense white fleece identify them as Bluefaced Leicesters or a closely related speckle-faced Leicester type — the breed whose crossing onto hill ewes produces the Mule and underpins Britain's stratified sheep system. Shot in the shade of a covered show shed on daylight transparency film, the frame is deeply underexposed and has aged to a cold blue, which only sharpens the animals' mottled coloring. Project: 219970