Black and White - Stark by comparison to the color work and in some ways I feel like it takes the feeling away from the subject. In others I love that it makes it so much more just about the light. For a long time before I understood flash at all I shot black and white exclusively. It was a a big part of the name Stark-Arts which I came to use for the web. These days the majority of my work is color but every now and again an image says Black And White to me and i make the move - These images are all stronger due to the nature of color conversion...
As for the lovely doe eyed Gia - I'll let the pictures be worth their 3000 words....