Black and white streets

We had three days of awful weather last week which confined me indoors and as well as trying to sort out my computer woes I did some serious cleaning out of my photo files. Whilst doing this I had a look at some photos I took in the US last year and decided that they would be good candidates for conversion to black and white.
I rarely do black and white nowadays as I much prefer colour but these rather gritty photos make a contrast to all the colourful,happy local and Indian photos I have put up on the blog recently.
I'm not claiming that they are anything profound-just different. All taken with the ideal camera for keeping a low profile-the X1- and converted into black and white using SilverEFX.

The Biker

Another photo from Chromefest 2015.A lady festooned with a great big top of the range Canon DSLR with a long zoom lens and flash unit obliged by asking Chenzi if she could take his photo.Whilst she was fiddling with the controls of her digital monster -too many choices-I snuck in with my little X1 and took the shot.Thanks lady Canon shooter and thanks Chenzi.I am pretty pleased with it.In fact so pleased that I am thinking about seeing if I can get some more biker shots at the local Harley dealer when their Harley Owners Group assembles for a ride.The irony of course is that I had six years when taking biker shots like this would have been so easy.
The photo was a DNG file converted to monochrome in Silver EFX.I am not a big fan of monochrome but it makes this photo.The colour version looks ho hum.