Queens Park - Colour vs B&W

[theantiquetiger]

Asnow,

I have never edited anyone's image before and I saw that you do not mind.

I took the original color and desaturated it (forget to which), and than moved the curves to get kind of a dark image. Than I dodged the building and the hedges in the foreground and increased the sharpness a little. I am no expert, you are probably a lot better than me at post editing, but this is what I came up with, more of a haunting, dark castle image

[asnow]

No problem editing my pictures. I'm open to any suggestions. I kinda like the haunted castle idea. It sorta fits being the provincial legislature and housing all those scarey politicians.

[Marko]

I made a change that may have helped this compression situation....and I'm seeing no compression anymore with images that are less than 275k and less than 1025 pixels in width.

Anyone still seeing errors?

Thx! Marko