Some other shots from the same night as I took my entry - I was using a borrowed 5D with the 70-200 2.8 IS at 1600 ISO - oh my gosh what a beautiful lens/camera
My entry - happy enough with the result, but looking at the top finishers I should have made it B/W but I thought that was a bit too cliche
I had entered this shot and then realized that it wasn't legal for a basic editing challenge because I had cloned out a telephone pole & wire at the extreme left margin. No worries, I decided, I'll just crop it a little closer after I get home from work and reupload it. But that was the day that I got a phone call at work with the news that my wife was having emergency surgery in Atlanta (we live in Virginia), and so I was on a plane before lunch, not to return home for six days. Brenda is much better now, by the way.
BTW, what's up with the Original Poster of this thread?