This was an exercise based on an image from a friend. I suggested turning it B&W which she did and Istill thought it could be stronger so I had a go myself.
Converted to B&W using a Black & White adjustment layer in CS5. (Although you can use other tried and tested methods to turn the image into B&W)
I first set the overall brightness and contrast based on the foreground then selected the sky from the horizon up (with plenty of feather) and used Curves to darken it further.
Duplicated the layer, masked out all but the sky on the dup and set the blend mode to multiply. This darkened the sky even further. The wet sand was then too light to be a reflection of the sky as it now was so a further selection of that area and use of Curves to darken it slightly.
The jaggies on the horizon are artifacts caused by using a small copy of the file as a starting point and not the original.
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