Open wide, very wide.

[Aussie_bluey]

This is a shot I have been trying to get for awhile, still I would have prefered a better background.:dunno

[Harryb]

This is a shot I have been trying to get for awhile, still I would have prefered a better background.:dunno
Good capture. What you could do with the background (if you are working with software that has "layers") is make a duplicate layer. Set the dup layer to mask and apply blur to it then apply it to the background only.