Colours into tones-2

For this exercise I needed to pick a picture and use the channel conversion to create a particular effect.

I chose an aerial landscape photograph and attempted to emphasise the depth by strengthening the haze.

This is the original:

It is a an aerial shot from an elevated position with some haze in the background.

For my alteration I changed all the colour filters, in particular I used the blue to try and emphasis the haze.

The result is reasonably successful in that the haze is more evident but it has not, in my opinion, made the photograph significantly more interesting.  The lack of colour probably does not do this photograph any favours.

For the final version I used the automatic (in lightroom conversion of the colour shot to black and white). 

This version probably demonstrates that the one I created has more depth, this version looks a little washed out.