Great BIF shot Jim. The tiny size doesn't show the detail and it's very grainy. The dimensions are OK at 1200px but 63kb is too small for viewing. It's about the size I use for my website. Try saving at a larger size like 500kb or even more. While you're doing that try a crop that leads the eye to where the bird is looking and even a horizontal flip (as below):
This is a fairly heavily cropped section from a 20 M pixel photo which won't help the picture quality. I'm interested in why you suggest flipping the picture?
Thanks for the reply Jim. On a lot of occasions (not all of course) when viewing an image, our brains will naturally look from left to right and by having images with the subject moving from left to right, we relate to it on a stronger and more positive level. It's also good to have space in front of the motion (called Positive Space) and less space behind the motion (called Negative Space). It doesn't change the image contents at all, and it's always up to the user whether to do it or not. It's only something to look at and see if you want to adopt it or not. I used the Rule-Of-Thirds for this shot as well for a nice balance. Cheers. I just noticed a few dust bunnies in your image - might pay to give the sensor a bit of a clean.
