City of Arts and Sciences at dawn - a photo on Flickriver

My first photo with my new EOS 40D and with the Canon EFS 10-22 mm. However, I'm a bit disappointed with the performance of this lenses. Maybe is my fault or lack of experience, but I think that the photos obtained are a bit soft, as if they were out of focus, and also the distortion in the extremes of the photo is very noticeable. In this photo I had to apply the unsharp mask considerably in order to get a decent result. Is this performance usual with this kind of lenses or maybe it's me that I'm a completely useless photographer? Please, could anyone help me? Technical note: when shooting HDR photos I used the Auto Bracketing function and the self timer for shooting, is that OK or maybe this is precisely the reason why I find the photos not very crisp?

Problem solved and lesson learned: in digital photography making comments with such a rush always leads you to wrong conclusions, ... the lenses works perfectly!

Thanks a lot in advance and my apologies by this long explanation and sorry for uploading a new photo without having replied the comments to the previous one!

City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia (Spain).

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Taken in: España / Comunitat Valenciana / Valencia / Camins Al Grao (show map)

Taken on: December 15, 2007

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Camera: Canon EOS 40D, f/22.0, 11mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Aperture:	f/22.0
Focal Length:	11mm
ISO:	100
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
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