Scroll 4 repo/Semi-Wild with Hood

I rreally like this photo.  I realize this is part of a B/W series and the B/W is an excellent choice. (The white horse looks a bit hot). It looks like there is some substantail wildflower color that could make an excellent color image, also.  Is this a single image? Any cropping?  Re:  semi-wild horses: There are so many on the Yakama lands that euthinizing is a real probability-there are conflicting reports on whether it has already begun. You've got a great series going.  Waiting for the next one.

Thanks, Jim.  I do have this as a color image (printed and framed, in fact) and the yellow foreground flowers are nice.  The sky is a bit blah, and while I'm not one of those people who thinks "if the sky sucks, I'll just convert it to BW," I did want to see what it would look like monochromatically.  I'm trying to get an eye for what works in color v. b/w, and so a couple of the things I'm sharing right now (here and in the Landscape gallery) are things I did not shoot or process originally with BW in mind.  I'm kind of testing an aesthetic theory for myself about texture, color, foreground complexity and color v. b/w.

I'll wait for a bit more feedback, but I'll start working on that dang white horse. 

Interesting image.  I also would like to see it in color if possible.

Here are too more variations: First with less contrast and the white horse a little less hot (but I think it needs more contrast everywhere except for the horses ;-).


 

And now for the color version, which is processed in Viveza a bit. 

For me, I like the color version best of the three.  IMHO the image is more dramatic in color.  Thanks for taking the time to post in color.

I do too, John, and it's confirming some theories I have about what kinds of scenes look good in black and white.  
ML

Marylynne,
While I love your black and white processing, I too like the color version best.  Does anyone else think that the white horse is still too hot in the color?