I'm feeling a little confined by the month of black and white...loosing my enthusiasm! I took another shot but was unhappy with power lines running thru it. I worked a long time in photoshop (learned a lot) but in the end was not happy with how the bricks turned out after removing the power lines. so, this was my other shot..pretty boring so i edited the B&W and added the focal zoom for a little interest. need to get out of this "rut."
The balance in this is great! Not sure how you did this with the processing, but I'm sure impressed! You mean you're glad February is the shortest month?? I have learned a bunch though.