Rocca Calascio (Santa Maria della Pietà) without stones!

This is a particular Church in Abruzzo, an italian region, that I've

allways see in many books. I would like take a beautiful picture, but

light and weather was'nt good. maybe next time...

Thanks for comments and ratings...

Prevor -- I think that the photo was well-taken, but if I had to pick between this and the one with the stones, I'd definitely go with the one with the stones in foreground.

I think that the other photo picks up the isolation of the chapel more strongly (and if you were to pull back further and move it out from the centre of the grame the effect would be even stronger).

This is purely my own preference, but what makes Santa Maria spectacular is its situation -- it appears to be throughly alone on the mountain and this creates tension with its environment which is what usually creates interest in the photo. Of course, all of this is easy for *me* to say because I wasn't there trying to take the photo, and had I been there I'm sure that I would have gone for the exact same shots.