Hi Kevin a super cool wintery fox ..... I do like the head on view .
Nice low view point .
Regarding tone and color I would say , I prefer Steve's view in general . Might be not perfect ... but there was not much to extract from the snow . So with the raw there should be more possible .
Well well .... the general use of Topaz Denoise , must be very good if a lot of folks jumping on that Topaz Train .... even at low Iso range . Funny enough , if correctly exposed ( ETTR ) I do not even use NR with fairly old kit .... apart from the DPP internal with low settings .

TFS Andreas