Got anything in a .007½ ?

[leighthal]

I'm starting a new project for my bedroom walls. The finished product will have 9 frames, 9 different shoes (and hopefully all different birds). This is the first trial run but am somewhat unhappy with the results.
Can anyone suggest how to make it better? I tried a few different placements of shoe, a few different pedestals but they seem to be lacking something I can't put my foot on. (No pun intended) Is there a way you would shoot it?

The shot was ISO 400, 1/20th, f9.5, 250mm

Please ignore the cruddy pp job. My computer is in the shop still and have no tools to appropriately clone out the stray branch underneath the sole. :er: Colour may be off due to no screen calibration on this monitor. Neither matters as this is not a final shot.