Seeing them together I love the colour one.Both have a great appeal because of the POV.Definitely the colour.

I will settle with saying this....WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! I prefer the coloured one too, absolutely. Great work!!!

Its tough to get a good sky when its overcast. Unless you have a whole lot of filters (red for b+w, or a polarzing filter for colour may help with the sky here). Wait...polarizing filters depend on your angle to the sun, so it probably wont work on a overcast day. Regardless, the colour does look excellent, the land itself has great depth of colour! I think the b+W could be darkened (darken midtones). But again, its a personal preference (I like slightly darker tones in my work). With this kind of natural beauty its hard to go wrong though. Beautiful compo! =)

I just went there uhm my pictures were not as nice...i tried ...Ok this is a just amazing pic of halfdome.....if its ok with you its going on my desktop for a while... VOTE

I prefer the colour one because of the warm tones. The trees are not so detached from the mountain behind in the B&W. Maybe if they got a little darker ?

Simply beautiful. Both are of excellent taste. Aloha

the color is pretty nice!! luv the sweep of cloud... blends the sky in well :]

Color version for me as the rock formations are critical to "seeing" the location. The low lying cloud works well for you and the overcast issue.

Very fine !

For me color is best! WHY BW? Life is in BW? Always conventions; "Suitable conventions".("convenables conventions" in french !!)One day, i'll show you BW! BLUE/WHITE!!V!

Both are very very good shots .. I actually enjoy the toned down coloring in the original, but also find you did a great job with the b/w version. Excellent work - and thanks for sharing your thoughts and considerations!

When comparing the two, I go for the colour version. Still, one should not give up on trying for a b&W version of this image. The approach requires a little more thought. As mentioned yesterday, the estimate settings, but I would add one more item to that. Burning in I do not think would work very well, so one most look for another way in order to achieve what Ansel Adams might do if he had a computer and PF twenty years agao, since he is nolonger with us today. How about a gradation screen? The sky is always darker at the edge of the print and goes lighter towards the mountain top. This way there is at least some difference there. It also may bring out the whisper of cloud dust on the very ridge. As for the trees, this would be done in levels and brightness/contrast setting, but especially in channel mixer. I'll add one more thing. We have marvelous light on the pasture and wonderful textures in the mountain--the two of them are seperaed by trees. In concentrating on these three elements, one can achieve a successfull B&W, but maybe going into a duo-tone might be also better served in this image. Keep me posted.

The color version is amazing!

Very interesting seeing it in both B&W and color. Have you tried the Ansel Adams contrast on it? I see Egmont has already suggested that. See what you think. These are awesome. Thank you! :0)

I told ya already..you are the master of color..smile

Love them both! The color one is quite warm, and that is nice. The black and white I believe could use a small amount of contrast postwork to see it come to life, and add a little depth. Just a suggestion, because I love Ansel Adams, and have to think of that everytime I see b & w of Yosemite.

I quite like the color version, especially the colors in the rock face.

the colored one is breathtaking and soooooo succeessful!!!! a beautiful and amazing view now! the second one IMO is to pale when comparing both! ;o)))