is this cold enough?

I played around with the contrast and curves until it brought out the

cold... did it work? I am including the original.

this is what came out of the camera.  I don't really like altering a photo to be radically different from what it was, but this is an experiment to see if I could bring out and show how cold it really was.

I like this one as well, but the other one is stronger imo - especially because of the uniformity in direction.