yellow bench

OK, off theme again. We are in Florida, we don't wear many hats. ;)Today I went outside to look for cool stuff in the backyard. Before I started scrapping, I would have found lots of lush flowers and plants which have mostly died. I didn't get to shoot too many things before Andy was asking for his picture to be taken. (I did quite a few of him on the trampoline, I will share them later.) But I did get this bench and knew it would do well to convert it black & white. (BTW, I have been reading Scott Kelby's books and realized my love for landscape and detail photography, things I used to focus before kids.) 



Here is the photo as shot, even with color it's kind of nice.







Olympus Evolt-410/Olympus Lens 40-150mm 3.5-5.6 /shutter speed 1/80 / aperture priority / f/3.5 / 400 iso / 40 mm



Here is the converted using Kelby's high contrast method with CS2.