Yosemite

D200, 1/5 sec @ f/16, 27 mm (18 - 200)

Second Version

Richard, I like the motion you captured here. Although I do think there is too much white water going on here IMO.

Love the chaos you captured with this image. color version gets my vote. I don't get the same sense of pounding water and chaos with the B&W version.

That's the same location as Charles Cramer's "Cascade Creek, Spring, Yosemite" image, correct?

http://www.charlescramer.com/pages/y487.html

I think the greens are a bit strong for me in the first, particularly the green in the water. I've rarely seen water in yosemite that color. I don't mind the whitewater, it's a good conveyor of just how intense the creek is in that area. I agree with Curtis in that I don't think the b&w captures the intensity as well as the color. Maybe just a little less saturation on the color one?

Yep, greens need adjusting in the color version, but I like better than the B&W. If I were trying to bring out the best in this image, I'd probably see if selective burning and dodging the water would help to comvey the churning and crashing and whooshing that I'm sure is there. I think that is the one big thing I've learned from my mentors here over the summer: to use burn and dodge carefully to bring out details that define the subject or the pattern or the chaos or whatever it is that is important in the scene. If you work on it more, I hope you'll repost.

I like the B/w version best!