I actually like the vertical composition here, as it works well to draw the eye up and down and up again over your subject. The capture is a bit flat, but that is easily remedied with a curves adjustment layer is PS. I see in your profile that you are fairly new to PP. Using a curves adjustment layer is one of my favorite tools, and I believe that it still withholds the purity of the image. To add one, Layer-->New Adjustment Layer-->Curves. Play around with the adjustments, but an S shaped curve usually works nicely for most images. Here is a small screen shot of what I think it needs...
Outside of that, your background is a bit too busy. Using a more shallow depth of field may help isolate the subject by blurring the background, but you have already shot at f/3.5, and I am not sure how much more your aperture opens up. Perhaps a different angle of view would also help. The best tip I have ever gotten for shooting was to be aware of everything in your frame. Is there something distracting in the BG, is there a big, blue line running through some one's head, etc, etc. I think if you got up a bit higher, thus taking the busy trees out of the image, this one would have been much nicer. Also, while I am not at all a stickler for the 'rules' of photography, using the rule of thirds and getting this one a bit off centered would have also added greatly to the composition strength.
Sorry for the novel, but hopefully is helps some. I like you r work from the Canadian back country, and I hope to see a great deal more. I think I'd enjoy a nice helicopter ride to work every morning. It'd sure beat the hell out of Atlanta traffic jams.
Blue Skies,
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