Hi Adrian, Thanks for your comment. I appreciate your time for dropping by and for giving me good points to ponder. I haven't tried shooting RAW right now. Will try soon.
I loved the colours and compososition in this photo, bart, but found the burnt out areas (presumably where the beam from spotlights first hits the stonework) a bit off-putting.
I notice you were shooting JPEG; do you not have a RAW option with the EOS 350D? Shooting RAW would give you so much more exposure latitude, you can do a lot of post-processing on a PC to keep highlights under control, before saving as a TIFF or JPEG.