Photography is an art of exclusion. This is something I have said before. But you exclude in order to focus attention on whatever it is you are trying to show.
Normally, having the subjects be this small in the photograph would be a good way to lose them. However, part of what I am showing is how much the subjects shine forth in their surroundings. Although they are small in their surroundings their surroundings offer nothing which competes with them. They are a little like the stars in the night sky.
This is another situation, of course, where you must rule the camera rather than let it push you around. Most cameras will want to overexpose a scene like this because the camera can't know that the scene is supposed to look dark and that the few tiny bright things are actually the subject.
Also, note that although there is an awful lot more in the frame than the subject none of it detracts. Subtly, in fact, the surroundings frame and contextualise the subjects.
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