It's obvious you can do no changes or many changes to this photo and that would make another photo of its own . Opening it up with the download made it too big to see all the photo at once . So I downloaded it and opened it with a photo viewer which showed the entire photo in a much larger size on my 27 " monitor then the photo UHH posted. It allowed me to get a better feel of the subject matter . After seeing it larger , I agree with Linda , it looks pretty good the way it is . But that doesn't mean you can't keep the original like it is and make changes to make another photo or two or three like if you would have taken more photos of the scene . If I were to print a large print to frame , I would use the whole photo , it wouldn't look so busy if the photo was of a larger size and details would be more noticeable and to me still tell a good story within . Just another opinion , after all , it's in the eyes of the beholder . After viewing on my computer , I deleted the photo since it is not mine to keep . Tommy

I love it as-is! The chaotic tangle of trees surrounding the nest, the flying eagle just about to leave the frame, their calling to each other (they always sounded like seagulls to me), and photographed in what appears to be quite windy conditions - all combine to be very dynamic and interesting to me.

I followed a bald eagle nest for five summers, so it could be I'm influenced by having been there/done that with the more "normal" perspectives and the fact that eagles are so common (here)

There was a time when the regulars in the PP section used to put shots up for editing on a fairly regular basis. It was a great way to learn and sometimes it actually produced something worth keeping . It would be nice to see a return to those days.

Anyway, here's a shot taken in Glen Affric. I found it during a recent trawl through my dusty archives. Apart from merging the three bracketed shots to produce the file that you see I have not got round to trying to do something with it. The exposures and the merging tool have produced an image that's brighter than it should be, but as I'm sure you already know, that's better than starting with an image that needs lightening, and despite the brightness, it's just below the point where the highlights are blown. And being a merge it should be data-rich and take a fair bit of pushing and pulling. See if you can come up with something that'll inspire me when I come to having a proper go at editing it.

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