A pleasant shot, but it seems to me that the people on the left do not really belong in this picture, and can be easily cropped out. But with them goes the singling-out, so I think that you only kept them for its sake.
Beautiful shot, just lovely. The light and exposure levels and burning really give this life. I just don't feel it meets the challenge well. The challenge asked for a person to be singled out in a crowd using shallow depth of field. But damn, I like this shot.