XPOST-New look for me

I put this in the people section, but I thought I'd cross post here to get some more thoughts.

I got to spend 4 days with a veteran (as in she's been in photography longer than I, but I'm actually a few years older!) photographer friend of mine this week. We studied a variety of master photographers and did a bunch of research on post production techniques etc... here's the product and I'm completely open to any and all feedback. This BW process is new too... using a 50% fill layer with the blending mode set to Hue (and will probably need a mid boost as a result, but the whites stay very much in tact!).