Bessie

@Brian: Thanks Brian.. she's not full of the milk of human kindness at this moment however.... ;^)

@Amir: Thanks for commenting Amir. I really appreciate your observation ...as I can see from your photos you have a pursuit and appreciation for the artistic as well as technical quality of photographs. Unfortunately,the animus exif puller doesn't like my particular camera,and I never think to post it.However, that said, the real stars are as follows. My camera Panasonic FZ30. My Leica lense,unsurpassed at pulling out details.Post processing in Photoshop!!! This is an essential tool to have and use to post process your photos. I use all the tweaking features extensively (but subtly).A quality SPVA/Panel monitor so you can see what you have.Neat Image for fine gradient sharpening and noise reduction,this tool has a host of tweaking adjustments for just the right amount of adjustment without compromising image quality.(Noise is an issue with my camera at iso 200 and above and can show at higher iso's in other cameras.) Shooting in raw format can give you an image with almost 4x's the ppi as jpg.Also ,all the post processing can be done by you... not the defaults set in the camera by the manufacturer.
Post your email and I am willing to give a step by step tutorial breakdown of the treatment of this photo.
....and thanks again for commenting...

@Geoff Hoffman: The herd had recently sent out an intruder alert.....tks geoff