Which of course was well before the days of Photoshop which can change your perspective rather quickly. Sometimes I shoot knowing the image is going to be B&W. Other times, while I shot for color because it is the default for digital, when it came up in Bridge, it was a maybe, maybe not; this is such an image. My difficulty with jacking it up a step in B&W is finding a decent process that doesn't glom up fog and mist and in this image, I took as far as my PP skill would go without it looking like Lucy in the Sky with Oatmeal. Instead, I concentrated on making the canopy of two trees work with the walkway and shadows, making it an inviting scene more than specifically dramatic. I don't see the blue sky/fog/mist as jarring, actually, quite the opposite, rather soothing and calm.
However, Fike, you are right, the objecte de arte in this case was the texture, tone and form and thusly I needed to decide if I could successively realize the same in the color image and using a variety of techniques, I felt comfortable asking for other opinions.
