Beautiful Photo, I can't decide which one I like better, both are awesome. I think the BW image helps to focus more on the shapes but the color image has brilliant colors.

like them both, but I think the color one is more arresting. did you just use a single channel to make the b&W? Looks good.

Hey, nice to see you extended your "Gates-session". This is another great angle, love the contrast between the orange and the sky...

Kyle, I don't quite remember what I did with the b&w one. I really have to remember to start saving my conversions as .psd and not .jpg so I can recover that kind of information. If I remember correctly, that conversion was either solely on the green channel or it used the green channel rather heavily in comparison to the other two.

love this one!!!

great colour! excellent angle.

I like your color version best, but the other one is nice too. I like your gates photos. I wish I could have seen it in real life- people seemed quite into this gates thing.
ps- I nominated you for best B&W photoblog at photobloggies (and I think for some other categories). :)

No doubt. The colour version works better adding some dimension to the final result. The black and white version is a nice echo play of lines but the colour version adds "spirit" to the photograph. Very well seen. Only drawback is the slight blue colour cast in the highlights. Easily fixable through PS :D. Well done!.

i really like how the textures in the fabric came out in the photo with the subtle shadows. it works.