I'm not sure what the fuss was about the process of my silly entry and I surely don't understand why anybody felt the needed to ask the SC to have me 'Validate' this non-threatning photo. I would almost pay money to know who it was. I have no idea what tonnemaping is nor do I know how to do that hdr stuff. For those super-curious, my edit was this with Adobe Photoshop:
This process usually adds a large amount of halo-effect especially in images with the sky in it. I've used it that way many times in the past and people usually make comments that I've over-sharpened the photo. So, there ya go DPC photographers...
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I have that brita pitcher1 here's a tip, don't refrigerate your bread- now thats an honest to goodness really useful comment. nice oversaturation as well.