The image looks fine on my monitor. This is a good shot, that place has certainly seen better days! I like the tinted version too, but my personal preference is the first one. :-)>

They look fine here too Taltos....My preference is for the second version, it's got that aged tint to it that I like so much. Great building you found there!

They do look quite dark, but not to dark for me. Will we ever know if we are seeing the same thing?! I like the first one better (just to be different), I think the tint would look better with a softer light. Great building & nice shot.

That's a good question, Bev - when I get into my stupid lines of thought one of the things I wonder is, what I see as blue, does everyone else see as 'blue' or do they see a different colour that they call blue? lol... this is usually around the same time as I wonder if when people go out of my sight do they cease to exist.....???? Really nice erm....cottage? hut? very small dwelling you've captured, that tint really does it justice. (",)

I agree the second bring's out the aged fell of the place but actually I like the first picture better. It looks like there should be people in army fatigues running past the home downhill. Man I can just feel it. Must be my imagineation. Bsteph

great shot and the clarity of the scene is fabulous.

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.

LOL! Jordy, I've had those same thoughts... "Look at the green grass." Hmm... I wonder if she's actually seeing my version of green, or if her green is my blue... Thanks for the comments all. Now if I can just get a decent printer (one of the drawbacks of being all digital).