The Bird Lady

I think I still have a few photos from Lisbon I didn't post. I will post some of these until I finally get back out and take some new pictures.
He is the first of them.

The expression of the lady in the 2nd shot is great

I agree. Her expression is priceless.

I also agree - blacks feel a bit deep and greys feel too muddy on the main subject and the bird...if it were mine I'd dodge a bit more.

Thanks for the suggestion. I agree it is maybe a little muddy looking. Here is another crack at it.

p.s.
After posting it is still not quite there. Mind you it does look fine in Lightroom. I find that all posts to the forum seem to lose a lot of highlights. The exported jpeg loses a 'little' but not nearly as much as what the posting shows. It seems I have to overemphasize the highlights in my pics to make it OK in the forum. Do you have any idea why this is Marko.