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I am recently very interested in B&W (No, not Bowers & Wilkins, but Black&White). I was digging through my unedited photos today and tried B&W conversion on some older ones from last winter that I actually found rather boring because of the flat light.
Here’s my favorite so far:

I played with contrasts, clarity, color channels, added a graduated filter and so on to get this look. Here’s what it looked like out of the camera:

What do you think? Did I overdo it?