Anything to improve this photo ?

It's fine for a family snapshot.

I would never flip a portrait...

I'm at a loss to understand how flipping it improved the image.

Unregistered.Coward wrote in post #16193457
I'm at a loss to understand how flipping it improved the image.

You might want to try it sometimes. It looks different. More "active" vs "passive", lines leading "in" vs "out", etc.
Not that you should mirror images at random, but it's good to be aware of, for instance so you can use it when posing people

http://www.spring.org.​uk …powerful-and-shocking.php

For portraits, I'd be hesitant to flip, because a face is never symmetrical. People might like a mirrored image of themselves better though. But it will be visible to others, even if they don't "know" why.
http://io9.com …eeing-photos-of-ourselves

Related stuff:
http://socrates.berkel​ey.edu …nglois.VSS.2012​.Final.pdf (pdf)
https://en.wikipedia.o​rg …ess_and_reading​_direction

René Damkot wrote in post #16193497
You might want to try it sometimes. It looks different. More "active" vs "passive", lines leading "in" vs "out", etc.
Not that you should mirror images at random, but it's good to be aware of, for instance so you can use it when posing people

I was speaking more to this particular photo, but thanks for the links, couple I haven't read.

You had better ask the boy to change to a centre parting, too, then, lol

Nice photo