I like the colored one better. Black and white photos always remind me of death for some reason :D The world is full of color, why destroy it on purpose? :D Yeah, yeah, I know, it is artistic, fine... Well, to be honest, I did see a couple of pretty good portraits in black and white that I liked but all of them had a bit of smoke in them too.
I used to feel the same and always went with color photos but on here with some of the challenges I have found I am doing the odd mini image now and no longer seen them all as dark
Thanks for your feedback