Katyn Memorial

I like it, but it's not sharp. Love to see the print.

On the print you can clearly read the inscription on the rock, now do that from a wider view of an APS chip size DSLR !
Thanks for your kind comment.

I'd like to see the almost black area to the immediate LHS of the rock and level with it lightened a little. If the theme is war memorials then the inscription needs to be clearer/sharper. The wooded background is surely very incidental. Can you get closer to the memorial even if it means cutting out the two small pillars?

Wow... this is certainly an emotional subject for me - so first off, thanks for sharing this image. I don't know how detatched I can be in order to offer any technical suggestions, but I'll try (do keep in mind that this is coming from someone who probably couldn't do any better - but perhaps that could be made up for with the benefit of perspective).
The first thing that strikes me abou this image is that you captured a certain solemn mood that has to be the key element for a photo such as this one - so everything else is just gravy, but lets see if we can get some of lumps out of it!
-the upper left, I think, could benefit from more dodging to reveal some detail in the trees as pentaxuser has alrady suggested(if its present on the neg - is it?) I found that sometimes too much contrast will "throw out" my shadow detail - now, I don't think the contrast of this image is in any way wrong, frankly I think its spot on - but you may want to try to trade off some of it in order to help bring out the detail in the trees.
-secondly (or perhaps I should have put this first) - the base of the monument is not parallel to the "horizon" - it seems to be tilted about 3-4 deg with the right hand side being higher than the left (perhaps this is reinforced by the "weight" of the dark area on the left as well). Its a small deviation, but just enough to make the visual impact a little bit less. I think the small crop needed to correct this would be well worth it - having that base dead-on horizontal would make this a lot more striking right off the bat.
Well, that's it for suggestions - once agan, thanks for sharing this image, I would love to see more (being Polish, I would love to see the monument in Northolt - you're closer than I am!),

Peter.

Thanks to all for the comments, methinks another session is called for.