Pictures of the day

High Dynamic Range pictures look fake but aren't;  all the information they show is in the original scene, only buried in shadow or hidden by glare.  Still, there's something extremely eerie about them. 

I wonder what the pendants judging the French Salon would make of them, if they considered Manet too wild & crazy to be acceptable.  After all, they're the bunch who started the meme that photography isn't an art.