From a recent visit to Ellis Island, across Alton Slough from The Audubon Center at Riverlands.
This was shot in color, after some basic tweaks (rotate, crop, levels), I converted to B&W in Photoshop Elements, using Topaz Labs' B&W plug in. At first it was sort of "meh", but I started experimenting with the options and was able to pull out the detail in the water. Pretty pleased with the final result, though I probably added a little too much grain. I tend to do that w/ B&W, though. Remembering back to my film days...
Here's the Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) starting point:
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