Built by the Lord of the Manor................

............St Bartholemew's Church, 13th century, stands just outside the gates of Manor Farm, now a country park.

The advice I've been given for shots to put in my mono album this month, is to shoot in colour, make any alterations as normal and then convert to b&w, sepia etc. This shot was taken in the morning sunlight and the greens were almost luminous.

Through doing just a few b&w shots, something seems to have happened to my perception of colour: everything in a colour shot seems a bit bright and OTT - interesting.

Here's the colour shot - what do you think?
http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/just-another/2014-05-06

[Decima F]

Lovely study in B & W Hazel

[Tony Guest (snoopybooboo)]

Such lovely photos Hazel.

[Julie Urbahn]

Lovely shot. Love the black and white

[Kane Arlow]

Beautiful shot, lovely scenery.

[Karen B.]

Fabulous such character & appeal, wish I had taken that picture. :) Love it in b & W.

[linda]

this is a lovely one in black and white

[Babs]

Brilliant b&w. The shades are really sharp too. I shoot in colour and then convert to b&w in photoshop and once the colour sliders appear I adjust them to sharpen each individual colour, that adjustst the sharpness of each colour.

[Faye Turner]

Nice capture in B&W!

[Sian B]

Splendid capture- we have many churches like this in Wales.

[Emilie Cartoun]

I'm in love with this shot, Hazel. I wish I could see it in color, with the vibrant greens and speckles of sunlight. Please? Something in me feels a little cheated :(

[Hazel]

@onewing

I don't have Photoshop but have Faststone. However some aspects of it seem complicated right now so I'm using Picasa or PicMonkey for my conversions - always something else to learn and improve on!!

[Karin Hirsch]

Very nice b&w . Like your pov

[wendy frost]

Nice in black and white also as it stands out in the sunlight

[Lin]

Love both versions be this one is a fav.

[Richard Hickey]

Wonderful picture.

[Lisa Poland]

So beautiful!

[Pat Knowles]

I really like this in mono....I saw your colour version on the way down but think this version gives a more mysterious air somehow. A really sweet little church.

[Cindy]

I agree with Pat. Love the black and white! :)

[Ivan]

Really nicely done Hazel, though I do find the colour one more atmospheric, pervaded by that calming and atavistic greeness!

[Hazel]

@ivan

Oh no, got to get the dictionary out now!!!!!!!!!

[Pyrrhula]

Love both but in this case I prefer the color one. Why? the light . In the color one it`s a pre , in this B+W one I think I prefer less to make it more dramatic. I can be wrong and I`m the first one to admit it.

[Nita]

I love the B&W, you got wonderful tones

[Claire]

Wow this really works in b&w, you get a feeling for the age of the church, understand what you say about the colour version

[Hazel]

@claireuk

Claire, thanks for all your comments and sorry I have missed you while you have been away from the site a bit. Sorry I hadn't checked to see what was up - take good care.