Giraffe, back of head - color

Another color vs. B&W comparison that I'd love your input for. If you didn't see the other pairs of shots, check this folder ... they're still here.

This was NOT taken on the safari. This shot is from the Rothschild Giraffe Center, right in Nairobi. It's a center for education about giraffes ... and I believe that they do some breeding there as well. Anyway - you can feed the giraffes and interact with them here. It's where I took the two pics of those beautiful little girls (same folder).

I definitely had the opportunity at the Giraffe center to get closer to the giraffes than I did when I was on the safari. I'm going to upload this both in color and in B&W. I'm trying to gauge which is more appealing. I've got several animal shots that I'm going to do the same with ... upload both a color and B&W, looking for you to compare and contrast the two....

I think that this is one of my more favorite compositions. Is the DOF shallow enough? Do the horns disappear into the background? Your thoughts?

Any comments or ratings are appreciated! :-)

Don't change a thing... Horns and DOF are fine. Nice one, Lou Ann

I agree nice one!

I think the color version works best with this one. Provides better separation from the background. I really like this "different" perspective. Well done!