Beverly Guhl 
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Karen! What a fun shot. Animals are the best.
Shooting in bright sunlight is so challenging, but you did rather well with it! I've had some pretty good luck by fiddling with PS menu Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight The Shadow defaults to 50, so you often have to move that to zero or 1 or 2 (works great for lightening shadows but don't overdo it). The highlights often only need 1 or 2, too (but it won't recover blown highlights). Images with higher contrast will require more. You can also duplicate your original layer, make your adjustments to that layer then apply a layer mask and paint away the areas you don't want affected. Sometimes two separate adjustment layers are called for, one for highlights and one for shadows; you can then combine the best of both masked layers into one image. Let me know if this isn't clear. I think if you just brighten up the shadows here the image will immediately look more balanced to you and less contrasty, which always helps. It's a nice capture.
Edited on Nov 08, 2007 at 12:02 AM
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Great capture, I like it a lot.
Thats exactly what I want to do I think? Ive just bought CS3 book to figure the layer mask thing out. I think it might be fsaster to come to TX for a tutorial.