Water channel - 2nd try

Another visit to this place, this time closer to sunset ...

The light was producing very high contrasts and none of the images
had a correct exposure all over, avoiding burned highlights produces
very dark images, so ...

I did an HDR of the water channel
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9769157@N03/4223081641/" title="Reflejos by Armando MGT, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4223081641_33b6e71c42.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Reflejos" /></a>

and a B&W version , which I think looks better than the color version
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9769157@N03/4223903692/" title="Reflejos B&amp;W by Armando MGT, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/4223903692_def1d302c4.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Reflejos B&amp;W" /></a>

The "fog" on the left side is actually dust from a dirt road on the left side, being sunday afternoon seems like the whole town goes out for a drive near this place.

For comparison sake, here is the first take, from about 3 months ago, around noon.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9769157@N03/3981893572/" title="Untitled by Armando MGT, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2543/3981893572_3b4eb3fea6.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="" /></a>

Thanks for looking !

the b&w almost looks infrared. Very cool technique.

I like the first one best and it is a well done hdr.

Looks pretty good, Armando./ i like that first one. the color and detail are very pleasing to view

very nice. good opportunity for the hdr.

The lighting in #1 is gorgeous! B&W is my least favorite, but all are nice!

Thanks for all the comments !

I did spend a few hours on the processing until I got the image to look as it is
I'm dreadfully slow when it comes to 'artistic' stuff