Black and white can add a powerful sense of poignancy to an image, particularly images out of the past. In color, this image does a beautiful job of vividly describing the ruins of a bordello that once served the miners who worked this mine in the early 20th century. Built high on a hill, it can only be viewed at a distance, and the painted mannequin in a white dress dominated the original color version of this image. When I zoomed in on the mannequin, important details show up for the first time, such as its incongruously missing hand and mournful expression. But the painted face of the mannequin looked very artificial in color. I changed it to a sepia image, but the graphic effect looked contrived. When I converted it to black and white, the color details on the painted face vanished, the porch looked older, and the mannequin became more of a ghost, and less of a whore. In black and white, the vandalized mannequin personifies the death of the Old West.