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Ghosh, you must have been stunned.
May you post the color version?
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Lovely image!
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Why? This is a stunning B&W image that doesn’t need “translating”.
@Promix I love this style of portrait oriented landscapes.
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Because I would probably prefer B&W version on Mondays and color version on Tuesdays 
While some clouds just must be in B&W, like in Clouds in Black & White - #66 by jeffholdgate, I don’t think this is the case here. Color version is probably also good, just different.
On the other hand, some landscapes must be in color. I can still remember when I first visited France, landing in Nice at the golden hour. Yes, I learned in school about impressionism, but didn’t “understand” it until I saw the real colors. Think of van Gogh’s Arles paintings in B&W.
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Give me some time to find it.
Opinion: color version preserves memories better, while B&W version probably makes stronger impact on general public. Just two different things. Something similar goes with cropping the bottom – distraction is removed at the cost of loosing some story.
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Except I don’t think he did crop the bottom.
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In fact there is no cut!
Interestingly, for me, the B&W is predominantly the beautifully figured sky, whilst the colour is predominantly fairly uninteresting grassland.
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Is that because the contrast between the darkest part of the sky and the whitest part of the clouds is stronger in the BW version?
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That may well be the case
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Is that a strak of irony Wlodek?
Why stunned?? … and WHEN?
The original picture might NOT have been all that stunning really. It can really be the case that the WHEN occurred after postprocessing the picture, can´t it?
I also like this B/W!
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But with the color version, I can SEE your point now.
I’m kind of B&W illiterate…
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Still I think I could see the “potential” in it even in the color version because it has a depth to it that is very promising when converting it to B/W, doesn´´t it? … and the sky is pretty dramatic even as a color picture. Maybe a little ClearView will accentuate that. With the new XD2s it ought not be any problems with the noise it might induce either.
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