Do not understand your fascination with black and white! I've really tried to get it, but it eludes me. The mailbox looks natural, but the brickwork just looks dead. If I try to show anything in a photo, I try to portray it in natural colors so the viewer can see what I saw, not what I might imagine. Sorry, but not for me!
Color is alive. B&W will only appeal to photo snobs.
#1 because of the colors.
What is HDR? And why is it necessary to use such abbreviations? Not all of us are so sophisticated.
Beautiful pictures! What are the berries in the last three pictures? I have a tree like that, but don't know what it is.
The color is vibrant, alive. The B&W is blah, washed out, dead. I can't help but believe that people that prefer B&W are pretentious and are trying to say to the world "If you can't appreciate dull, outmoded B&W, then you just are too dumb to know "fine art"." But smart intelligent people like me loves it!!!
Sorry. Just do not understand the fascination with black and white. Takes all the life out of a scene.
Probably would have very nice in color. As it is ----- BLAH!!
Such a collection of dull, washed out black and whites. A terrible waste of an opportunity to show very vivid colors. Why pursue such an outdated method? After all is this not the twenty-first century?
Thank you, Shang. Don't know why so many people use mysterious combinations of letters and just assume that everyone knows what the heck they're talking about. Does it really take that much energy to just spell it out? Just grinds me!
Paul
You're kidding, right? Color is full of life and true. B&W is blah.
Beautiful sharp image. Would have been great in color. As is, so so.
"The B&W is just perfect". NOT FOR ME!!! Do not care for the outdated format.
IMHO the picture would be a prize winner IN THE DAYS BEFORE COLOR. it would have been a fantastic shot it color. I think the oohs and aahs over B&W is pretentious personified.