A shot with fabulous colours, depth and sharpness accompanied by a fantastic narrative It is indeed.

Excellent result from a scene that many people wouldn't even look twice at. As Tony says, the square format goes well with it.

You've turned 'light pollution' into an art form - Very effective: I like it.

This is a really nice set, focussing on the detail rather than the entire view. It's amazing what you see when you have a camera!

Oh Yes. You can hear the rumbling bass and the fanfare that accompanies it too.

I like this. Did you do a vertical crop of the figure and his flanking pillars?

I like the contrast between her and everyone else.

".... and the trees watched in amazement" ? You don't get skies like that very often.

I sympathise over the lens cap - I'd hate to lose one of mine. You've still got that fantastic lens though. The 'A' version is just as good. Wonderful picture too.

As has been said - well spotted - and well photographed. The glass is likely to be the original. It was simply flowed out onto a polished sheet and left to solidify which results in these huge distortions. Normally it gets cut into much smaller pieces so you don't see the effect like it is here. Big sheets like this were mega expensive - but hey - it's the Albert Hall !