I like the first version best. The other day, I had a brief moment to browse at the local library, so naturally I trotted over to the photography section and looked for Ansel Adams. I found a book called "Ansel Adams: Letters and Images". The first print was of a stand of aspen trees, and it absolutely blew me away. I was struck by the range of tones, the way he was able to get the bark of the trees to look just like glittering burnished silver with the background dark and mysterious. This is the first time I'd gotten a chance to see an Adams print on paper. Even though it was just a print in a book (I'm sure an actual full-sized print on good paper must be a thousand times better), I found myself whispering "whoooa!", like Keanu Reeves, to myself. Unfortunately I didn't have time to look further. I'm finding more and more that B&W photographs can be extraordinarily beautiful if one knows how to take advantage of the film's characteristics and subjects are carefully chosen to suit it. Very nice image, Taltos.