We call them weinds in Garstang but all of these narrow passages are so fascinating in towns & villages I think. Love that you have picked up these two older ladies with their white hair & walking sticks, you can just imagine them having a good old chin wag !!! Perfect in Black & white of course too !
Ah. This is how it should be done! And I am beginning to learn that b/w is quite an intuitive thing. I really like this shot, the ladies, the shadows and the sky, the perspective.
Down our way we call them "jitties" (sing. jitty). In Liverpool I've heard them called "entries". Amazing how the same thing gets to be called so many different names within one country and in the same language. Although to be fair, geordie could be considered a different dialect! ;-)
@tishpics If you want to really experiement and have fun with B&W Patricia try doing a few "channel mix" shots. I came to really prefer that form of B&W conversion to simpler forms like desaturating the shot. I'll dig out a few of my efforts if you like but here's one I've sold a few prints of...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanbarnes/5684040203/
This is a HDR colour shot converted to B&W by channel mixing.