[Leica] PESO: a call for help

[leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)]

I've chosen to answer this before reading all the other responses from 
earlier today.
My thought - why all b & w or all color? Be inclusive! Perhaps an 
uptight gallery owner would insist on that, but I think you should 
choose whichever is strongest AND TELLS THE STORY BETTER.

Jay

On 4/4/2015 10:24 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I do not usually ask for your help in editing photos?I consider that it is 
> up to me decide what to post and up to you to decide whether I have posted 
> pearls or garbage. But for once I am in genuine doubt. I am selecting 
> pictures from Semana Santa to make a small gallery. The processions 
> culminate tomorrow, so I will likely go downtown during the day to 
> document the meeting of the Virgin and the resurrected Jesus in front of 
> Alicante?s city hall that marks the end of Easter here. Right now, I am 
> editing the pictures from last night, and what I cannot decide is whether 
> to present them in B&W or color. On the one hand, the colors are an 
> integral part of the events; but then again, presenting the images in B&W 
> changes the mood to something more menacing, for example in the PAD I 
> posted earlier today.
>
> Here is an example of an image in color:
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/Viernes_santo_color.jpg.html
>
> and the same image in B&W:
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/misc/Viernes_santo_bw.jpg.html
>
> Which one do you prefer, and why?
>
> I would like to have the entire gallery in color or in B&W.
>
> TIA,
> Nathan