I've learned something about black and white over the last couple of days. Not only from trying to use it in my own photos but i have been looking at lots of different photoblogs, that are far superior to my blog, and come to the conclusion that it doesn't always work well. The skill is to pick out the ones that do work.
Unlike on the last couple of posts, there wasn't much of a process in figuring out what worked well for this photo. Mainly becuase i was actually happy with what the end result of my fiddling was.