Gauss wrote:
I made this exposure on a neighborhood walk last week. While it's fairly ordinary, when I saw the highlights on the trees and the variation in colors of the foliage, my immediate thought was that a decent b&w conversion should be possible. I often make photographs of things like this more to practice the craft of using my camera and digital darkroom tools than to produce a highly compelling image. I think the conversion came out reasonably well.
The black and white is an improvement.