Seems to give nice effect to have image splitted in half.

Yeah, the correction profile for the lens.

OK you're forgiven. Negligible distortion (any correction applied?) and many nice starbursts.

OMG, I cant imagine getting home like this and not getting stopped,.
This is like those clips of cars in India,

LOL - you could have blended it a little then! Very funny and appreciate your candour

Makes the leaf look like a giant tongue.

LOL I'm surprised others vehicles weren't tooting/flashing at you. Lucky in more than one way.

That was my sloppy abrupt way to address a low sky exposure and brightness of the artificial lighting, that I boosted the exposure in post then did a quick reverse GND filter... Phoenix area is full city light pollution level.. We are on the NW edge but still a lot of lights.

It's an interestingly abrupt light/dark boundary where all the house eaves seem to cut off the light at the same level. I'm wondering if this was a design choice for more effective and energy efficient ground lighting, as well as seeking to preserve a dark sky. Nice to see Sirius wrt your part of the world and of course good old Orion presiding high up. Good that the new Laowa showed up - looking forward to more test shots.

For quick and dirty there is a lot to explore (an potential) in that sky. Presume light pollution isn't much of an issue there?