The HUGE difference of black and white and color

When you take a picture with all those amazing colors in it, the colors make the picture.  The colors change the pictures in many ways. The picture becomes a lot more appealing to the human eye then a plain old black and white picture.  There weren't always colored pictures, before the colored pictures, there were only black and white pictures.  Nobody could get the real effect from the black and white picture like it really was for example take this picture of Ryan with tons of pumpkins.  I feel like the picture in black and white takes away the whole point of the picture. 

 The difference between these two pictures in reality is the color.  But when you look at these pictures in more of an artistic way, the top photo that is black and white doesn't have the same effect as if it way in color with tons more things to look at.  Although black and white is what a lot of the pictures we take are, it just doesn't have as much artistic value in my mind as it would if the photo would have tons of colors.