I knew when submitting my image that despite keeping to the rules, if somewhat taking them as far as I could, that there would be some dislike for the heavy manipulation and methods used. But I would like to point out that had the rules specified that only one image could be used or that only minimal editing such as brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, white balance etc could be used, then I would have happily stuck to those rules.
I simply went with the image I did because the idea I had for it amused me and it was fun to do. I would be just as happy to take a more "traditional" image with no more picture editing than converting it to Grey-scale or similar.
If the rules happen to evolve beyond the current ones for next months theme, so be it.
It's all a bit of fun ^_^