chillwolf
"Play 'em off!"
Chillwolf, Like the Blue Ridge Mtn one alot. Did you push up the contrast or metered for the sky? Or a bit of both?
I guess the camera metered for the sky, that's why the foliage in the foreground is dark. I have a custom setup in gradient mapping in PS that I developed to convert my color shots to B&W with one click.
Here is the original shot in color.