Chipping Sparrow by the Sidewalk (BW)

I tried this image first in color. I'm not sure what exactly I didn't like about it, but it just wasn't doing it for me. I think that maybe the shading kind of made the bird look a little bit dull. (Not that a chipping sparrow is an especially brilliant colored bird...)

So, I tried the image in black and white, processing it as an HDR in Photomatix. I think that I like this one a lot better. With everything else being even in terms of color, the bird stands out a little bit more, and the fact that it was shaded in color doesn't seem to come across so much here.

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