Enjoy! Feedback always appreciated!  

Very nice!

Very nice! I do have a suggestion though... It's a bit too sharp. I tend to love sharp images, but there's a point where it gets to be too much. Other than that, it looks like you have some good flow going.

well done !! but as Immo said, a bit to sharp.

when you sharpen your image you can lower the opacity to ,i don't know how you sharpen , around 60% (if you use the normal sharpen filter)
and after you did that and you think it's not sharp enough at your focal pint ,grap your sharpen tool and sharpen the focal manual ! (b4 lower the strength down to 15% and use it carefully)
ahh and better you use a 1px border :)

you've improved your skills

Thank you all for the feedback and compliments...  

When I set out to do this particular one, it was more an exercise on improving my 'smudge' technique...

I know see as you all do that yes it is a bit too sharp...I think it's due to the last layer/apply image/sharpen that I did...

Least I know that I'm on the right path and like Herc said, the more I do this type of work the better I'm getting at it...