Prendre la vie du bon côté

Being still a big fan of film I cannot help be think that this image was made for black and white, with a little bit of grain thrown. I would also move the guy from the center of the frame, and move him over the right vertical third. This provides a little more balance in the image.

I converted it to grayscale and added just enough grain that it appears taken from a 35mm frame of Tri-X and developed in warm, undiluted D-76.

The good old days of photo-journalism!

What do you think?

A beautiful shot, Bob!

A wonderful shot Bob! That is a huge bottle of Molson Dry!

Scott, while I like the "grainyness" of your version I miss the red colors of the stick on the side. How about B&W with a red stick in it?

do you know what he does with the red thing?

as a fan of bw, let me say that here colours add something to the humans story this photo tells. Becouse also colours are somewhere old, becouse they tells about old clothes, and becouse the contrast with that new red object is evident. so, is an very good  journalistic photo (but i prefear to say a very good photo) where colours works for evocavity