monochrome mood

For the past few months I've altered many of my images to sepia or monochrome after shooting color in my Canon 20D. A recent conversation with a fellow inspector wandered into black & white photography. I've only shot maybe 2 rolls of black & white and barely played around with digital black & white. This friend mentioned using red filters to improve the look of clouds for black & white. So....I've been shooting a lot of black & white in the past few weeks with the in-camera setting on red filter.

Here's a couple shots from today on site-