Have done a black and white conversion on that colour version, it seems to bring out the detail a bit better, hope you dont mind:
You can see another version of both the BW one and the Colour one in my sig...[flickr] they may be better to tell. As I have stated in this they were taken with a point-and-shoot so if the sharpness etc isnt right...its all the camera's fault!the picture is not big enough to make an accurate judgement on this... but it looks oversharpened
I may be wrong but with it being so small its hard to tell much about it at all
cheers Chris
B&W doesnt do it on this shot. Its just grey noise on white and black.
The touches of green and ochre in the colour version add far more.
Colour version is much nicer IMO..