New Growth

[Chris Calohan]

In relative terms, this young cypress is just a baby in an aquafer where Cypress Trees live hundreds of years. I've presented it as a color and a B&W.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Good shooting, Chris. They each have their positives but for me, unusually, the B&W comes second.

Jeremy

[Paulo Bizarro]

Nice. I prefer the colour one.

[Chris Calohan]

Thanks, guys. I too prefer the color version but only because the B&W didn't quite do as I intended in post...it's back to the drawing board.

[francois]

I would slightly lean toward the color version but both are excellent.

[Leszek Piotrowski]

The first for me,.. the colour reflections are wonderful.

[UnfamiliarLight]

Beautiful subject. I"m a colour fan and I like the rendition of the green.

I think the background darkening might be a bit too much. My guess is with it brighter the tree gets lost so there is a trade off there for sure.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

The first for me,.. the colour reflections are wonderful.

I agree and think the colour adds something more interesting and extra into the shot. I  don't mind the mono version, but that 'splash' of colour, really helps to lift the tree out of its background.

Excellent.

Dave

[Chris Calohan]

Thanks for all the comments. The BG is dark but prints out much lighter...I find darks tend to clog up when changed to lo res jpegs.