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Capital's iconic landmark, St Gerard's Church and Monastery (1910) up

on Mt Victoria, towers over Oriental Bay in Wellington, New Zealand.

Comments and critique most welcome!

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The exposure and framing are very good.  For an impressive visual impact there is too much going on, to my taste.  I think the culprit is the bright building behind the sailboats.  Cheers, Micheal

Micheal, why would you want to deprive Wellington of its swimming pool?

Just kidding!  :P

Seriously though, you might be right; I'm too familiar with this scenery to judge it -- some integral part of the landscape would have been missing without it, regardless of whether it fits there or not.  However, I also thought about the modern / historic diagonal juxtaposition, but maybe it doesn't work here or it's not clear enough (?)

why do you need a swimming pool by a body of water?  What's wrong with the water that's already in place :-) ?  Well, I have to say there is a good flow from the RH side of the frame along the gently-lit small "garages" towards the modern building.  But to my taste, the building stops it for two reasons: 1) the shape of the roof; 2) the brightness of the building.  The shape of the roof flows towards the hill, but the hill is dark, so the flow is interrupted by that.  Hey, I like that blue angel (or bird) on the hill.  Cheers, Micheal