Mike Boyd

Initially, when reviewing color images from a trip to Big Bend National Park, this image seemed flat and dull to me.  Later, while experimenting with black and white conversion in Raw Developer, I stumbled across the potential this image had.  I like the way black and white makes the clouds stand out from the dark craggy mountains while causing a good separation and layering between the foreground hills, mountains and sky.  The side lighting helps create a sense of depth in the hills at the bottom of the image.