[C&C] Papal Cross

Stephen P

First time posting a photo in this forum. I recently started a Photography course and had some homework to take some photo's. I took this photo yesterday afternoon in the Phoenix Park. I would welcome any comments (good or bad).
The photo is taken on a Olympus mju700.
The file is too large to post directly into this thread so here's the linky.

Fenster

Just looking at the figures around the base of the cross, I was of a mind that I would've gone in lower and closer and have tried to shilouette them against the cross.

I like it as it is for all of that, although I have this itch to start playing around with the contrast...

elven

First impression says 'woo, love it'. On further consideration, something bothers me about the trees and the squintyness of the path compared to the symmetry of the hill & cross - although it's obvious you couldn't take it from anywhere else and get the fabulous sun thing going on there. I'm not even sure cropping out the path in front works though, because the shiny bit down the middle leads your eye in to the stairs nicely then you notice the figures. I know you probably won't re-shoot but another consideration might have been to go further back and use a longer lens to simplify the composition - or as fenster says get in there and silhouette those figures, although that's an entirely different scene from this one, it would work well.

Like the green and blue, too, something nice and balanced about the colours.