Melting

Here's the "full color" version for comparison.

Hey David, I agree BW is the way to go on this one. The large version has great details for a image that appears to have been taken in full sun, nice rendering of the whites also. Looking forward to more images from your visit.

David,

A little hard picking out the scale here so you description helped, but given the grand view of this glacial landscape it's pretty safe to say that the waterfall isn't a little trickle... :-)

Definitely works well in black and white. I just have a couple of suggestions. One would be the overall contrast to give the landscape a little pop. the other one may or may not work depending on your own view. For me, the top of the upper glacier is pretty bright with little or no detail. I think you could crop some of that away. You could still leave enough where there is texture right above the falls and still have the sense of the "source" of the melting. Otherwise, a very good landscape showing the glacial environment and the "melt" nicely.

Lon

As presented, i much prefer the color. I think i might have preferred a tighter comp featuring the falls (since that is the most interesting feature here) but this works well as an overview of the landscape. The B&W needs some contrast work as Lon suggested, the whites are too bright and there should be some richer blacks i think.

Thanks for the comments! I struggled with the black level a bit, given that there are some very dark areas to begin with lower down that I wanted to keep detail in. It's also tough because of the amount of fine detail. In any case, Stan, here's a different, closer shot of the falls.