Hey,

Welcome aboard. This is quite an image. It is really sharp. I am assuming that it is a monster of a crop? Was this taken in the wild?

I think as far as wildlife portraits go, it is very nice. It certainly is quite sharp as I mentioned above, and it is presented differently than a lot of shots that are shown of eagles. LOL, I never get tired of seeing any of them.

I was playing with the photo in Photo Shop a bit this morning. I believe that the shadow tones can be pulled out quite a bit without destroying any detail - particularly around the eye and the front feathers. I will admit that I was having a bit of a difficult time keeping the layers together and looking natural at times as you really lose those highlights around the beak and back feathers quickly.
However, I just did a simple shadow highlights and it seemed to help significantly.

Thanks for posting - I like it a lot, but I think it needs a little bit of pp to really make it sing. There are others here who are much better at it than I am.

Again, welcome!
James