Photography

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That's my thoughts.

The colours are exactly as captured, and I quite like the ble tone of the sky

both evokes different feelings altogether... the b&w is my choice...excellent work ! Best, mahesh.,

just curious.....what does it evoke for you?

has a powerful or deep sense of calmness...thanks for sharing ! Best, mahesh.,

.....interesting as it was JUST ahead of a big storm Calm before the storm!

Would you say you err towards B&W as a bias? I think I generally do.

The troublesome area is the middle just left of center that sort of unbalances the scene... the b&w version manages that area a bit better. The tree detail with light (white) background is excellent and IMO the key element. Overall the b&w gets th... 

.... neither has any post-editing, but i could play with it i guess. What would you do to edit it?

resulting in that gray area that's out of place. You might try playing with the gamma slider to make the photo a bit darker to kill that gray area or even just crop out the top part from the middle of the "tree line' to make a panorama shot. The key eleme...  

I agree with the comment regarding the smaller/sparser tree but I'm not sure how else to further improve it. I like the B&W pix. Very good effort overall. Cheers !

What happened now?! OH!!! Both are quite striking. I wouldn't choose one over the other. Both have an ominous feel.

pre-storm actually

I'll be more literal next time. ;-)

I love the way it blends, looks as if there are many more layers.

... but I have a black & white bias. Color looks like 'real life' while b&w is more abstract and evocative of wherever our imagination takes us. Even I will admit that there are some photos that just need to be in color. While this color photo wor...