Thanks for the comments. I learned a lot about considering background in this one. I had two of these guys actually and was trying to get a shot of them face to face, but the one that could have worked, had a dreadful background so I had to settle with this one.
Serious headgear - maybe if you had cropped a little more on the right, you could have given the impression the hat went on and on and on . . .or maybe not cropped so tight. Dunno,