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Having sounded off on Digital Angel's art/not art thread about having shot monochrome botanicals to improve my foof skills, I've now been prodded to post some of the results. Here's the first for instance. What I found was that color is a seductive distraction that masks an image's problems, like weak composition, careless exposure, or badly positioned depth of field. Besides making it easier for you to see what you need to do better, B&W also helps you to simply see your subject more clearly. Plant structures are more obvious, competing greens resolve into distinct forms, spatial relationships are more definite in a 2D rendition. The cosmos above is pink, so pink that almost nothing else was noticeable in color images I made. Tomorrow, I'll post another pink cosmos. Although they were the same pink in real life, in B&W, they're completely different colors.