My son was born in Canada, but we moved to Seattle when he was 10 (ten years ago). He got this when he turned 18, and I was not too pleased, but now I think it looks pretty darned cool. This shot was TOTALLY his idea... I had another image all set to go when he hit me up with this. :O)
pp:
convert from RAW
crop
curves
selective color
levels
contrast
hue/saturation
cloned out some small imperfections
resize
usm (strong on parts of the flag)
add border
sfw
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very nice. it looks like the red of the flag is bleeding into the skin color on the hand. with the advanced editing rules you could have fixed that up, but i like this a lot. nice work.