The region is dusty and the dust can linger in the air almost all day. Dust weakened Sun in the early hours of morning. Backlight creating silhouettes looked far more interesting with B&W.
These work great in B&W Sundar. The first is a cracker with that dark moody atmosphere that you've produced really well. I like the crop as well to give it the "pano" look.
Thanks Craig. Yes, they found a new life with this. I had to do PP to clean up some banding artifacts in the sky of #1. Came out good in the end.