B&W

Just a quick note.  Just because Ansel Adams took some iconic black and white photos (in a time when color photos weren't very good, mostly, I'll point out, although certainly he stuck with black and white long after he could have migrated) doesn't mean that they're better, or more artistic, or anything else.  A big part of the reason Adams did black and white and continued to work with it was because of technological limitations of his time, and the solutions that he developed to deal with them, which led him to continue to prefer black and white.

When you post black and white pictures in this day and age of your hiking trips, you just look like a poser.  We all know that 1) you took those pictures in color, because you don't have a black and white film camera, 2) you turned it either black and white or sepia in Photoshop or some other comparable image manipulation software.  It's not a question of some artistic technique, it's a quick drop down menu, and 3) it looks better in color.

I seriously wish hikers would knock it off with the fake Ansel Adams black and white shots.  They look ridiculous by now.

Ansel Adams' famous shot of the Tetons and Snake River

A modern color shot from almost exactly the same spot—albeit admittedly with much less dramatic lighting in the sky.