About the Image(s)

This was a candid shot of a girl riding a pony at a fall costume event in Flamingo Gardens. Once I tried the image as a black & white, I felt like a captures the soul of this child in a Victorian Era. Taken with my Nikon D 5200 on Manual Mode, Lens 55-300; Focal Length 100mm, Speed 1/320 sec., F/5.6, ISO 1000. Post processing Photoshop Basic adjustments, including a black & white with a touch of Sepia conversion. My questions: Does this image give you the sense of an era gone by? Does the cropping of the image work?