Thanks, AzPicLady. I had similar thoughts to yours but also felt the black and white brought out things that color masked a bit.
AzPicLady wrote:
Your B&W is extremely well done (I would expect no less from you!). And I really like the boulder. However, in this case I prefer the colour version for two reasons. 1) Part of the wonder of the Cliffs is their colour and all the shading. That gets sort of lost in the B&W. 2) The colour version shows better separation of the boulder from the cliff. In the B&W it seems to melt more into the cliff and the separation is starting to get lost.