Shiv, here is the color version without burning the sides of the frame.
While burning and dodging was invented to work around limitations of medium to represent all intensity levels B&W photographers routinely use them to give artistic touch to the images. You may notice that in works of Nick Brandt and other B&W photographers. The main challenge is right mix of burning and dodging so that the image does not look very artificial. I am not sure whether the one I presented here went to the other extreme - frank views will be appreciated - now you have the reference color version too
Also, as usual if you are not on a calibrated display dark regions appear darker than what they really are. In this above B&W image there are no pure black pixels (with 0 intensity). Most of the darkest pixels that you see starts from about 5. Also browser like Chrome may not be rendering colors/intensity properly (at least on Mac for sure).