Can anyone help with this?

Ive been trying to get the cross in the middle of this photo to stand out more but anything i do just makes it darker.Any idea of what i can do to get this or just make the picture better in any way?

 

Here's my try at it.....

 

Why not post a high-res clip of the cross only?

 

Good point, I think ther's too much foreground to begin with......

 

Maybe the perspective correction and slightly more symmetrical crop, plus local colour adjustment is a help...

 

I like the edit that deanimator did. I like the perspective correction. Was that done in PS or with another program.

 

The color in the original is best. I like what PNA did with the cross, but the edit would have been better if just the cross had been modified.