landscape loking across the solent from IOW

This was an early picture taken back in April when I first started with photography. It was my first foray in composition I suppose. However, the reason for posting is that I thought I'd take a rather mundane picture and play with Black and White. So, I de-saturated it, did some burning top right in the clouds, high sharpening and 'clarifying' in PSP. I then decided to add 'noise' to see the effect. Personally I quite like the grain effect as it gives the picture a sort of 'timeless' quality. But I suppose it's a 'marmite' thing. I have a good few images in colour which dont really do anything for me and rather than consign them to the Bin I'm gonna convert to B&W and give them some contrast. But before that I'd like to know if I@m on the right lines. Your comments and thoughts