Pic of the day 006, pushing b&w conversions

OK, sometimes these pics are jsut going to be nothing more than experiments in port processing.

This was me taking a picture and then going way overboard contrast wise on a b&w conversion (also its ISO1600 so that gives it that kind of imperfect look too)

thought it came out kind of neat, personally. I didn't push the conversion yesterday very far.  This, a lot of sliders are near the extreme ends of of high or low in Lightroom 2.  I am always afraid to do this kind of thing, so it wasn't really a "learn how to do something" thing, more of a "learn to allow yourself to do something" exercise.