Inspired by andyoxon's Alpine picture inna-Ansel-Adams-stylee, I have started converting most of my pictures into black and white.
As Charlie Waite has pointed out, it solves the green-everywhere affliction which can plague landscape photography in England
This one was taken on Glydwr's Way, near Meifod, on December 31st 2010. Hard to believe, but a couple of days earlier I had been trudging through foot-deep snow.
Cropped and contrast boosted slightly in Irodio; RAW saved as TIFF; conversion via Picasa's standard B&W option. I did try using the "Filtered B&W" option; it produced different results, but on this picture I didn't prefer any of them; I thought the vanilla conversion truer to what I saw on the day.