Charles, i really love b/w images and i do add grain to a lot of mine. i prefer your second image here because the grain seems a bit much here. perhaps a little less grain might look better. hope you don't mind that i played with your image. i took the 2nd image and then added some grain to it and played a bit. sorry i fiddled with the exposure and contrast and stuff. couldn't help myself. LOL! Yours is exposed just fine...i was just wanted to see how it would look like this. sorry. :(