Back in the golden age of black and white photography we had to learn how to think about how certain colors would appear. We looked through a camera and saw everything in color so it wasn't always easy to see the color as a grey tone. Knowing how light reacted to the film and recorded a color as a shade was key. We could filter for it and the filter might make the whole scene look red or yellow or blue depending on what we wanted to colors to do, but we could show definition and separation of a color in a scene. Sometimes I forget this now when i have a photo that might appear in black and white in the paper. When I remember it, I'll tone the photo as color and black and white just so it reads as best it can. Yesterday I forgot to do this with this picture. I should've known the orange ball and greenish water in the subdued light of the MARC pool would make the ball nearly disappear in b/w. When I looked at today's paper I did one of those slapping my hand to my forehead moves and said auugghhh! I do know better, yet somehow missed it yesterday. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer.