critque club--
you did an excellent job at capturing a kitten, they seem to be always be hyper when i try to shoot mine. anyway the image is too saturated your whites have NO detail what so ever and in the photography world you must always try to expose your whites to keep detail. i suggest you meter your whites next time...although i'm not sure how your camera (konica-minolta) works. I think a reason it looks as blown out as it does is because you used the on camera flash...thats a big no-no, if the flash isnt doing a good job as i am assuming try bringing your subject into a better lit area.
like everyone on here below me says that you might have gone overboard with the sharpness..I agree with them. dont try to make your picture look soo unnatrual although it may be your style you just went a little over on this picture.
I think cropping it a different way would have also helped, I dont know how the rest of the picture is but maybe cropping in on just the kittens face and leaving the empty space to the left of the kitten would help a little.
I like the way the fur looks on the cat's forehead. I wonder how this would look if cropped a bit differently? Meybe cropped in from the left to off-center the cat and give a little more at the top and bottom as the kitty's head looks a bit...squished in the frame to me.