Tefiliah
by Teedoej

Comment:
Very powerful. This photo tells a story.
Edit: Bumped to 10 for the sheer emotion present in this photo. National Geographic quality stuff.

Heavenly Skies
by Jovi

Comment:
This looks just a little too juiced in post processing. :(

"Pray incessently. In connection with everything give thanks."- 1 Thes. 5:17, 18
by Shea927

Comment:
A decent shot, a pretty scene. But I a shot that only links to the challenge through the title isn't as strong as one which speaks for itself.

THREE CROSSES
by CONRAD

Comment:
The biggest problem I have with this photo is that is seems to lean to the bottom right. Perhaps a simple rotation counter-clockwise in photoshop to straighten things up would have helped a bit.

Reaching Out to Heaven
by lucpher

Comment:
I would like to see this using the full 640 pixels. I think the detail in the sculptures is lost and looks really jagged. A bigger canvas (even if it was just a little bigger) would have helped that, I think. I really like the silhouette, and the sky is very dramatic.

The western wall
by Doubledizzle

Comment:
Here's what kills this photo for me... The big half motion/half ghost guy in the foreground. I get the motion blur of the rest of the people in the photo, but the focal point of the photo should be the wall and the people drawn there. Every time I try to look at that, I get distracted by this giant ghostly face in the foreground. :( Nice lighting on the wall and otherwise really well done.

First Holy Communion
by buddybuddy1226

Comment:
I think this might have worked a little better if it was taken from a lower angle... to be more on the level of the girls.

St. James arriving to the temple
by alexgarcia

Comment:
Good choice for conversion to black and white. I would have either lit the statues in the foreground a little more so that you could make out the details in them, or moved forward to exclude them from the photo. As it is composed now they're a little distracting.

San Xavier del Bac Mission, Sistine Chapel of the New World
by phinbob

Comment:
Nicely done, but the lighting seems a little artificial.

Mercy
by SJCarter

Comment:
Nicely done, but perhaps just a smidge over-sharpened. The statue in the foreground seems to have some "glowing" around the edges between the dark areas and the light areas. I like the use of DOF to fuzzy up the tombstones in the background.