Magnificent! Thank you for sharing your process! I love working with black and white but struggle moving it to color, so it's encouraging to see it can be done so beautifully!
It's funny, I wast just wondering this last night: what do you do to achieve the soft focus with the hard, sharp lights in the final product? Is that like a motion blur on a duplicated layer above it with a blending option?
Btw, great artwork.