Winter is the perfect time to celebrate the particular qualities of black and white, rendered here in a photograph and an ink drawing.
“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.”
— Musician Jack Antonoff
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
— Photographer Robert Frank
“Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” – Photographer Kim Hunter
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Photographer Joel Sternfeld
“Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.”― Actress Ginger Rogers
Annie Seikonia 
The thin dark bones of winter, beseeching, bereft, awaiting an end, cold as hell. Enduring.
I was looking at a similar scene just today and wondering how to draw it. Your solution is excellent! Thank you for sharing this!