Who wants to duplicate reality?If people wanted reality, they'd spend more time looking out of the window than chasing their tails doing pointless jobs!Photography is about abstraction. The abstraction of 4 dimensions to two. Both time and depth are discarded in a still photograph, so why not discard colour as well?On second thoughts; the word 'discard' has negative connotations. To simplify and refine would be a better description of the process.

There are a few photographs that have actually brought tears to my eyes. All of them were taken in Black and White.Why? If I knew that, I'd be regularly taking pictures that bring tears to other people's eyes.