At first glance, this does not even appear to be a photograph. HDR and tone mapping does an amazing job of bringing out the ideal exposure everywhere in the shot simultaneously. Without HDR this is a nothing shot. With HDR it becomes pretty amazing. From nothing to amazing...it's a miracle, uh, miricoli. Here's the miracle in large.
Imagine you go to a party and you complement the host on his landscaping, and then the host says..."yeah, check out the water garden out back." Then you go out and see THIS. I definitely would have a hard time dipping into the punch bowl after.
While there is nothing technically wrong with this Chiller selection (there were 389 shots that resulted from this search word and there were definitely pics with worse use of HDR than this), I picked this one because it just plain creeps me out! Totalisator references the similarity to Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now...he might be right.
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