I don't think the image is too dark. It's a nice shot, with good crisp focus on the eye. I think the problem is the cropping (or lack of). If you know how to PhotoShop out the street sign, you might want to see what it looks like that way. Otherwise, I'd definitely at least pull the top border down to the top of the No Parking sign. Having half of that 25 chopped off is distracting. Other than that: :encouragement:
Thanks, that certainly does look betterAfter a very quick and dirty cleanup and a little cropping; just to give you an idea of what could be done...
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