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Cheers Jeff.

I think maybe colour film was not as highly developed as black and white. Towards his later years the quality would have improved somewhat.

The picture on the front cover is great! I think it is better than the black and white images he took. It is far more realistic in colour.

Thanks for all of your input. I should have mentioned the top 50 landscapes were from the photo.net all time list.

Maybe a lot of people do not make the decision to photograph in black and white until they are at the pc, maybe this is why we do not see so many, or maybe the explosion in digital in the last few years brings a new generation of photographers who are, on the whole, not so interested in B&W

There seems to be a larger window of opportunity in B&W, but colour sunrise/set pictures need the light to be absolutely right.

Interesting debate though.

Hi

Does anyone think that black and white landscape photography is dying out? A

quick search of the top 50 landscape pictures of all time reveals only one

mono shot.

Black and white will always have a place in portrait photography, being the

medium of choice for many, maybe because it can remove distractions etc but in

landscape, the photographer composes for the strongest image, removing

distractions with compositional skills.

Some of the early pioneers, Adams for example, had to use black and white as

there wasn't much choice. I wonder what amazing sunrises/sets he witnessed

and was unable (unfortunately) to record.

Does anyone have any views on this?