Such a lovely little lady! Given that you coudn't blur the background (it's too close) to isolate her, why don't use a smaller aperture? Since you shot at 1/4000 you had room for quite a bit of stopping down. The 17-40 is a great lens, even wide open, but it's sharper at smaller apertures, as any lens. Just my two cents! (or better shillings!)
Thanks for you kind comment, lighting was really good today so provided some great lighting, I agree with you on the fingers, sloppy of me, I will try a different crop on this shot to correct it.
This is beautiful i really like the !! great colours !! I think it would have been better if you didn't cut off her fingers like that !! or at least u gave the picture a cut from somewhere else !! aLi !!