It’s always worth looking back over old images. Every once in a while I dip in to my archives and see if I can either find a hidden gem, or I revisit an old favourite to see if it still holds up well, or, if I feel I could reprocess. Well, after catching up with king of the mono wildlife images David Lloyd, over a tasty pub dinner, I decided to have another crack at b&w and mono conversions, as it’s something I’ve dabbled with in the past but without much success.

After much fiddling of levels, dodging and burning and colour balancing in Photoshop, I ended up with the above image which I felt was a nice conversion with some very pleasing tones. Originally I only posted it on Twitter and via my Facebook Page as I felt it was nothing more than a fun experiment. However, after receiving some nice feedback, I thought I’d put it on the blog as well as it’s a great image to illustrate the previous point that it’s always worth looking back at old images once in a while. So, get those archives open and try looking at some old images in a new way, because you never know what you might end up with as a result…