When I was a student I shot a lot of Black & White. I earned my chops processing and printing all my own film and making all my own prints, as we all did. I continued to do that for years, even into my professional career. I prided myself on my B&W prints. Both my personal work and my commercial prints. Those days seem long gone now as every commercial project is digital. Even on the occasion when I shoot film, I still scan the film, doing all the processing work digitally. Output is then off to a client via FTP, through one of my desktop inkjet printers, or via file to a local printer. No more darkroom, and thankfully, no more chemicals. But what I am missing lately is the look and feel of Black and White. On a recent trip to San Francisco I decided to fool around with some Black and White when we were at the Mission Delores. I wandered the grounds looking at things in Black & White like I used to do back when there was Tri-X in the camera. But the captures were all digital (color). It's the processing and output that's Black & White using Nik's Silver Efex Pro2. I love the control of the software and the ability to really push these images in the direction that they were originally conceived. Much as I would have done in the darkroom, but much more quickly, accurately, and without the smell of fixer on my hands....