OK. I had to post this one to my blog as well. It’s the result of some serious digging into Photomatix Pro for the HDR creation and tonemapping and then Lightroom for final processing.
I am simply amazed at what these software tools can do to make images like this much easier to achieve. In the film developing days, I’m not even sure if an image like this would have been possible, but if it was, it probably would’ve taken considerably more time and effort than I spent on this.