Queens Park - Colour vs B&W

[asnow]

Here are couple of version of Queens Park (the Ontario Government Legislature). The colour one is the more traditional (perhaps touristy version) and the same picture converted to B&W.

Which do you prefer?

[asnow]

Marko. The originals were 271Kb and have been converted to less than 50Kb when posted and seem to have lost a lot of sharpness. Does your new server still have a limit of 275Kb.

[Marko]

There are a few issues that still need correcting and this is one of them...arggh.
All the settings that I see and set are at 275k....and yet it's not working as expected.
I have a call out to someone about this and expect it will be fixed in a few days.
Until then...calling the images from flickr or photobucket works fine.
So sorry for this hassle - I'm trying to solve multiple problems at the same time these days.

[asnow]

I did another post and it was 251K and did not get reduced so I guess I will post a little smaller until this is resolved.

[DanStar]

I prefer the color image.

[Mad Aussie]

Ignoring the sharpness issue ... I think I lean towards the colour version due to the B&W not having enough punch about it.

[asnow]

Thanks Dan and MA. Here's one more crack at it with smaller files (which I hope won't get over compressed) and adding a bit more punch to the B&W

[Mad Aussie]

Huge difference in sharpness!!!

More contrast in that B&W now too ... much more appealing.

[Iguanasan]

I much prefer the colour one here but I almost always prefer colour.

[asnow]

Thanks MA and Iggy. Weird, the B&W one looks much better in Lightroom than it shows after being exported and posted. The colour one seems to be much closer to the way it looks in Lightroom.