Piezography B&W Print from a color slide original.

This is a Piezography B&W print on warm tone Tumbridge paper. I made it by scanning the color slide original as a 16 bit grayscale positive and in PS 6 altered the tone of different areas with adjustment layers, layer blending modes, and lots of masking. The most significant alteration I made was to correct somewhat for the perspective of the orignal.

That said, I have two questions with two parts each for you critiquers: First, do you like the image? Compared to the original? Second, is there any way to make this image in the darkroom from this original? Considering the original type, the burning and dodging and the perspective correction I don't see a way one could have done this and maintained image quality without a computer. This isn't about me promoting digital imaging or anything, I'm just interested if there's a way to do it without all the ones and zeros. So if you think it could could do it, how?

And finaly, if I hadn't just told you this was a digitaly altered image would you have suspected any foul play?

Thanks for checking out my work,