Another concern of mine is that while, yes, these are beautiful places, and yes, very beautiful pictures, will being at the place ever be as beautiful as these HDR pictures? Probably not.

My interest in photography, and art in general, has always been in capturing the beauty of what’s around us, even though it is never attainable.

Obviously, with technology, the standard is changing. However, you will never be able to stand under the Manhattan Bridge, look at it at that angle, and think it looks as beautiful as it does here.

So my point is that with pictures like these shown (all due respect to the photographers’ technical and inherent skill) that this type of “art” enhances nature rather than imitates and projects it, which, maybe this makes me old, is not something I’m comfortable with.