My new camera....

Who the hell would want to take black/white or sepia pics, ha ha..:)
 
My old art teacher Colin Walker was a railway enthusiast in the 1960's, taking loads of pics of trains and even had them published in books, but he only used mostly black/white film, even though colour was easily available.
I bet he looks through all his pics nowadays and thinks "I wish to hell I'd used colour!"

Check his books, every one in b/w-

http://www.nenevalley-railwaybooks.co.uk/ap_colin_walker.html

In fact he brought one of his books to school once so we kids could look at it, but we took one look at the b/w pics and thought "F***g crap, why didn't he use colour??"
 
I think colour and B/W pics have their place, I love shots of the family that we have on the wall in B/W.
 
I know which of these two I prefer..;)

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Perception is a highly individual thing. We see the world in colour and use either colour or b&w to emphasize that what we want to convey.

Your looking at the pictures like a child looks at a book. "Oh look at the pretty colours".... art which photography is, is not just about colours but what it evokes. The light and dark, the lines. The appreciation of the scene. Personally I like black and white pictures too... but then I appreciate art and not just colours.
 
I thought this was a neanderthal wargamers club, not a poncey art gallery, ha ha..:)

Artists are a funny lot. Van Gogh was certainly a few colours short of a full palette.
 
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