Interesting -- for some reason, this photograph looks much sharper on my screen (Retina laptop) than other photos in the gallery. It's all perception -- is it the tonality, or slightly grainy "tooth" to the image that gives the eye something to hang on to. Nice photograph!
Not sure... The paper is textured, so that might have something to do with it? It does reduce the contrast a little on the scan. I will likely print this onto a glossy paper at some point. It was scanned straight from veuscan.. No PS to adjust anything.