[Larne]

Starting with the good bits, I totally love the quality and detail of the B&W image. Although the lighting is a little flat, making the scene a bit two-dimensional, the statuary is brilliant as is the texture on the stones and the masonry work.

If I stay on the detail I really like this picture but when I pull back and look at it in totality I'm afraid it doesn't work for me. The doorway draws the attention, which is pulling you away from the lovely mono detail and when you get there (to the doorway) there is nothing really interesting to see. So you try to go back to the stonework but the eye keeps dragging you back to that door.

There is also too much convergence in the verticals for me. I'm not a fan of unnaturally 'square' scenes but I think a bit of tweaking to make the verticals converge a bit less would improve the image.

Overall it is an image I really want to like for the reasons I listed in my first paragraph. As an old-school B&W photographer who struggles to do good mono on a digital camera I must truly applaud the conversion. Unfortunately the whole package just doesn't quite work for me.

P.S. The more I look at this image the more it grows on me. I just love all that detail in the architecture.