Exploring lighting and some black & white

Attempting to step out of my comfort zone just a tad a bit...I got a little carried away...but thats ok. Since my threesixtyfive group's theme for Sunday is "ghetto" lighting, I've been experimenting with such lighting...it's not as easy as some of my group members make it look! Anyhow, on day 73 I took it a bit further and ventured into the b&w realm and thought what the heck...lets try high key b&w....finally realized how FAR out of my box I had traveled!! Phewwwwwwww, that was scary!!
So, the photo on the left...after playing with the black and white, I thought I'd add a smidge of color and then a smidge of noise...what I like about it...it reminds me of the old "colored" photos, you know, the ones that were colored by hand ;-)
The one on the right...I ventured into high key...not really knowing much about it, just seeing a lot of it...so I am not sure that this is actually "high key" but anyhow...feels high key, probably from fear of realizing how out of my box I was. Anywho, I like it because I really stretched myself on this one and I kinda like my eyes here ;-)