For you Woof, there's something there that engages and envokes a memory, which is fine. I like the general composition, but I personally don't think a mono conversion adds to it. For me, I love mono done well. And by that I mean true blacks and highlight,
almost always high contrast. I generally select images on this basis. Did a family shoot over the weekend, as the granddaughter wanted some memories of her grandmother, who is suffering dementia. The colour in the autumn trumps everything in my book and so made the most of that, however, this shot had to have a mono conversion in my book. She's only had a handful of images so far, but this one brought a tear to her eye, and that's without seeing some I have of her grandmother = job done

Happened to be one of those random moments I caught as it happened.