Hi Travis - a couple of lovely images, I think that your choice of going to a B&W image was a good one. There seem to be so many different materials in the background, I suspect that it would have been less effective in colour.
The one thing I wonder about is your crop. I wonder if you might strengthen the image even more by tightening your crop; perhaps by going to a square format. I'm not sure if all the material at the left of the image really adds anything to the composition and I find the contrast just a tiny bit soft.
I was thinking something along these lines: