I'll upload the color version next, but I liked this better I think. Combing through old images and ran across this one. Kids start work early here (Afghanistan). His hands reflect the work he put in that day. I also liked the backlighting on this one.

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The color version. I like the backlighting here as well, and worked this one a bit in various Nik plugins via CS4. I like how it came out, but the B&W version is my favorite.

Clearly a B&W version of the following image. Starting to really enjoy working with black and white.

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Very little processing here, I actually had to desaturate the colors a bit, as it was....well, very bright. :-)

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My friend and co-worker Nik, who works so hard and takes such good care of us. He's watching the first snowfall of 2008 here in Kabul. I like how he was backlit, and of course, I made it black and white. The color version was just ok. I like this better.

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My first attempt at selective coloring. The birds eye maple guitar was too tempting to leave black and white.

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I loved the black background here, and how the light falls off from left to right. If you look close, you can see the low E string vibrating. Gotta love Nikon lenses. : D

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This and the following series of 4 images was taken in Dublin Ireland on a gloomy spring day. I felt they were worthy of some black and white treatment. Critique is welcome as always. : D

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Collegiate Panorama

Buena Vista Colorado, with the Collegiate Peaks in the background. It was great to finally get up to the mountains after being home from a long absence. It was a cloudy day, but one can still salvage some decent photos from days like this. I'm happy with how this turned out, after the initial out of camera images looking so flat. This is a 7 image stitch. I almost think I like the color version better. The final step I applied here, after using a few of the Nik Software plug ins, was a graduated neutral density filter. To be fair, I should have had one on the camera, but I was using a polarizer at least. Software to the rescue... The GND really made the sky more dramatic and finished this image nicely.

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It's been some time since I posted here, life has been busy since getting back home. I finally got out to do some shooting (serious shooting that is) with my new D3s. It was a cloudy day, the type of day many people don't like to shoot in. I love to defy conventional wisdom. I think the results here are pretty good. The old standby for cloudy day shooting. Black and White. This worked out pretty well, it sort of came out looking like a very old photo of Colorado. I almost think I like the color version better.

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Sunrise, but no color. I wanted to see what the color version with the rich tones it had would look like in B&W. Equally rich.

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Maroon Bells, normally shot in color, I liked this black and white.

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Aspen trunks in fall.

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I don't do a lot of selective color, but this one seemed like the right place.

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Mystic Forest

From a semi gloomy day, the muted colors seemed appropriate.

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