Appreciate the comments.
Willl try lower, nearer and wider next time. Cheers!
About the sharpness ... I had to reduce original to file size of less than 100k.
I compared the original against what I posted above.
There appears to be loss of sharpness cos' of that.
BTW, I used compupic to resize & edit.
Any idea how I can maintain sharper pictures next time I post?