Quote from: Mongoose

I love the fire and the underground passage one, very good

I also like the first shot of the church with the gravestones in the foreground, though Id probably have been tempted to try a multi-shot stitching job from that possition to get the whole building in.

I was tempted to try a multi stitch shot but to the left there was a rather nasty parked car, and further left lots of scaffolding where restoration work is going on and other assorted bits and bobs that werent particuarly photogenic.

I tend to use Aperture priority rather than full auto, but thats probably only because the camera I first learnt to shoot on only had Av mode (Pentax MV, marvelous machine and still takes shots to rival the best). Unless youre aiming for a particular artistic effect which needs shallow DoF, fast or slow shutter or whatever, as Serious said its composition that makes the shot.