bw inspired by Ansel Adams - get pushed challenge

My get pushed challenge was to take a photo I did and improve it.
Here is my get pushed challenge from Joan Robillrd - @joansmor So my challenge is to redo a photo you think you can do better. You can reference the original in you comments or not that is up to you

Sorry still not happy with it.
The original photo -
This particular photo was also a get pushed challenge to take a landscape b&w using the wide grey range.
I'm not actually that excited about this one either.

http://365project.org/myhrhelper/365/2012-08-31
https://www.google.com/search?q=ansel+adams&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIy_qyutzSxwIVAho-Ch3WYweX&biw=1777&bih=861&dpr=0.9#imgrc=51Z1O6WewT_3zM%3A
No mountains around where i live lol

[Kathy Burzynski]

Joan Robillrd - @joansmor Just didn't turn out as I had hoped.

[Joan Robillard]

Definite improvement. BW is a hard medium. I am often left feeling I could do better when I attempt one. But think this is really nice. Using the buildings instead of mountains is inspired.

[katy]

A fabulous job of making do! You have the shape of the river and I agree with Joan about substituting buildings for mountains!