Editing: Crop, levels, select sky, more levels on sky, noise removal from sky, lighten shadows on eagle, resize, unsharp mask, sharpen tool on eye, beak, head and foot, save for web.
For ages, I've been wanting to get a good picture of an eagle. This is the best one I've taken - it let me get really close to it and didn't fly away. Quite a few eagles spend the winter in the valley where I live.
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