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Spring came surprisingly early this year. These are from March 2nd.

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Some - relatively - recent images from a small hamlet close to where I live.

There is a castle as well 

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Good composition, Jerry! Fine work with shapes and textures.

Great winter feel to it.

Works really well in b&w.

A set that has little in common other than the important role the light is playing here.  Or the lack thereof in some cases 

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Inevitable follow up to Wetlands 

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Great series,  Sportz2Pix!

#2 and #4 would be my favourites.

Some landscape images from small nature preserve close by.

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Always an enjoyable subject, I think.

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And ending with a special kind of horse 

Always something of a challenge since a rather obvious characteristic of flowers is being ignored.

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Appreciated, asokell! Thanks!

These were all processed in LR.

When I did my b&w conversions in LR, I normally started by working on tint and temperature in order to "split" the Red, Blue and Green as seen in the histogram.

Then I added Clarity and Vibrance. a lot  .

The result of this in colour is not really nice to see.  At this point, I used the Convert to B&W.

Add Contrast as the image "needs" it.

I also liked to add a Split toning effect.

Or just Shadow Hue and - Saturation. Like in the 1st image in this set.

LR is really easy in that it shows you exactly what you are doing an everything is reversable, You can revert to any point in the History an choose a different path.

The more you use it, the more intuitive it feels.

Thanks, Prettycranium! Appreciated!

I must admit I convert almost all my favourite images to b&w.

Or perhaps it's the other way around and I prefer my images that work in b&w 

I hope you don't mind I add a second part from these.

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The summer counterpart of the ice sculptures. This is organised in a coastal town: Blankenberge.

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And two from the outside:

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Close enough 

Great composition and conversion, Afterimage!

There's an annual exhibition in Bruges around new year, always a different theme. These are from 2012.

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