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Nice shot.However I peronally feel that details should be kept as it is in nature's shot but here it appears that you have applied some creative details here which actually makes it difficult for the viewers to know the real view of this creature!(IMHO).The eye contact & colours are great but I am not sure wheather those wrinkles on face is an original one or not!

My best regards.

Kallol

This is truly what it looks like...its face is not altered...

We use creative touches in human portraits...so why not with our animal friends? An incredible shot!

Love it - incredible details. What lens did you use and at what aperture? There is someone here at PN  who swears about using the lens wide open to get the best of the lens. This does not look as if it was shot wide open. All the best and thanks for recently rating my red ixora.

This was in fact shot wide open at f/5.6 with a 200mm zoom... I have had the same advice from someone on PN on many of my photos, but don't personally think it works well with every subject, and every lens... If I shoot wide open at 2.8 -4.0 with macro lens or super wide I end up doing focus stacking... which is not a solution for moving subjects... I am no expert, only been doing photography for a little over a year, but from what I read a lens is not at its prime performance while wide open... lab tests seem to always rate the max performance at about +2 stops...