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Every week, my loved one and I walk around Malmesbury, an historic town about 18 miles from me. Among other things it has an abbey which is itself a wonderful record of architecture from Saxon times onwards.
Last week's jaunt was a chilly one but with bright sunlight, so I put my "black and white head" on and decided to go mono.
These are with the trusty 1Ds Mk2(I gave the 350D away)...and am I glad I got this instead of the 5D2 to be honest. I find it very "filmlike" and just love the grittiness of high ISO.
I slapped on a polariser, turned it for maximum "quack" and shot handheld.
To hang onto detail/range I shot in raw, converting at very low contrast to colour tiff(just to get a flavour of what mono filtration I needed, funnily enough...humour me, I still think in emulsion), then boosting saturation. I boosted blues a tad more, then going to mono for a orangey-red mono filtration feel. I added a bit of diffuse glow and dodged highlights where necessary.
  There are several more on my PBase gallery if anyone fancies a look(link in my sig).
I used the 16-35 f2.8L Mk2 throughout.