Well, my dear, the thing is, When you say you are crediting the owners of resources (and posted a link in front of it), I thought you will be linking the resources and not the same artwork again.
I am assuming you are O3A on deviant art? Nice piece of work. I especially liked the dark and white theme, down the middle. It would have been more impactful if you had done the text in a similar way (with the same dark-bright theme).
Also, blur is usually done to show depth and to focus on the two people in between, but for some reason that is not happening here. I can't put my finger on it, is it over blurring? or did you use some other kind of blur? or is it because of its width? I may be wrong though.
But other wise nicely done. Good Job.