Yeah, me too, leaning toward the B&W shot. Why? The color shot shows some purple fringing in the out of focus area, due to the wide f/stop iuse on that lens, and that color fringing is making the OOF fur command a little bit more attention than it does in the B&W version. The one eye is a bit OOF, and in the B&W version, that seems a bit less noticeable. The two versions are not radically different from one another (the B&W conversion appear pretty "straight", and not "exotic" or "filtered"), so this is just a leaning toward shot for me, like a 60/40 at most...neither one is a hands-down, clear, most-definitely type of winner.