Layers to adjust Squirrel separate from background, then used Auto-Color, Contrast & Brightness, Enhanced Saturation, Magic Wand Tool, Rectangular Marquee, Magic Eraser & Eraser Tools, Merged Visible, Sharpened, Sharpened Edges, USM, Deep Yellow Filter, Diffuse Glow on the blown-out sunlight regions, Blur Tool, Clone Tool to remove a black spot left over from a layer,Resized, Saved for Web...If you will do me the kindness of a little grace here, I will greatly appreciate it. I thought about AD/HD or ASD as a title for another self-portrait, since I am both, but my wife cautioned me against it citing the PC-factor. Ultimately, that required me to create a spoof acronym, along the lines of D.A.R.Y.L. Honestly, I can think of no animal that is more like a thinking-level robot than a squirrel. A squirrel has an apparently endless source of power, can perform super-human acrobatics fearlessly, and can out-think "squirrel-proof" birdfeeder baffles that were labeled as "fool-proof." I readily conceed that in the battle between birds and me,...I am the fool. Therefore, I feed the squirrels that they might grant me the beneficence to also feed the birds! :}
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As for the photo, I like the way you've captured the squirrel looking at you. Amazing how they can cling to the tree like that. It appears that your focal point is off a little, or it's just a smidgen blurry overall. Nice DOF to blur out the bg.
Sorry to say, the long title really took a lot away from this IMO as for meeting the challenge.
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