West Texas Church

Lovely, Jerry.  Very nicely framed.  I think I'd be tempted to darken the bottom edge a bit as the extra light there kind of draws my eye from the gorgeous stuff above.

Jerry, I'm enjoying how you lined up the steeple with the milky way.  You've got a fine looking star field that balances well with the artificial along the horizon.  The lighting on the steeple look great.  The touch of light on the grasses at the bottom seems out of place, so I'd suggest cropping that or burning it into near darkness.

Nice work with the church.  The light on it looks nice.  The green at the front edge doesn't look natural.   I'd either darker or crop.  The stars look soft.  Maybe a lot of noise reduction?  but at ISO 2000, not needed on a 1DX II.  29 seconds with a 24 mm is pushing the edge to get star points and you can see some star streaks beginning to happen which may be part of the issue with the stars not looking quite sharp.

This is well done, Jerry. I like the nice light on the church steeple. I agree with the previous comments about cropping and/or burning the grass at the bottom.   

Hi Jerry  Agree  with the others about  removing  the light at the  bottom .....  otherwise   its  a very  beautifully   captured  scene.  Marks  comment said  it  so  well


Albert   Darmo
Canada

The orange/red light on the tower is nice, along with the MW rising above it.  Reservations are the bright light/reflection below the tower and the black bird in the grass.

Doug, thanks for the comments. The black bird is part of my copyright logo.

I like the way that the steeple leads the eye to the milky way.  Just enough light on the steeple.  Consider cloning out the green veg at the bottom instead of cropping it out as I feel the space balances the composition.