Even though scenes like this take the right equipment, time, planing plus the hiking I always get bored quickly after looking at them. Its a landscape, basically all you can say is wow , that's awesome or pretty. God really did all the work. I guess that's why I'm more of a action type photographer or someone who likes to capture changing elements. It requires more from the photographer in some aspects and I think that these added things/elements say more about the photographer then the picture. One thing about landscape stuff is its all been done many times before. I like to do stuff that's never been done before or that I have not seen at least. When it comes to HDR images that term makes my stomach turn where I guess its because so many people have distorted it and taken it beyond a photographic level. The use of subtle blending using layers is a must without the halo's around objects. That is the only way that I can get myself to look at a so called HDR image. The high definition stuff can still be considered a photograph and not a CG image if you don't over do it and in addition don't add other elements that weren't in the original photograph. Back in the film days folks would dodge and burn to bring light up and down on the photographic paper similar to the technique I'm trying to achieve. I took photography back in high school during the mid to late 80's and it did not sink in then because I guess I had no patience for the process.