Beautiful.
In a previous post I said something about how your HDR work didn't really do it for me, and I think I may have figured out why because of this shot. To me the colours looked somehow false, the photos looked almost as if they were created in Photoshop or some other package. When the shot is "reduced" to B&W, though, I can totally see the benefit of HDR. This example may not be as extreme as some of your colour work in terms of HDR tweaking, or maybe the conversion to monochrome has softened the edges that I'm not keen on. I don't know - I'm no photographer.
Let me just say, in the light of recent posts on this thread, that I am in no way dismissing your art as anything other than creativity coming directly from you. I appreciate the time, effort, thought and skill that goes into creating your works, but unfortunately my buttons are not pressed by the result. I am glad you do what you do since so many get enjoyment from it.
I'll just say it again - this is a great photograph.
