The first time I saw this picture, I was definitely "wowed" by the scene and how brilliantly the artist captured the lights of the boats and fireworks, but I just figured a great deal of time had been spent on post production in photoshop. It wasn't until two years later when I started to research the HDR process that I realized how spectacular this picture really is. HDR photography, as I later learned, involves putting your camera in bracketing mode and taking 3-5 exposures of the same frame and then using all of the light data from those exposures to create a single photography with spectacular highlights in both the shadows and the light parts of the scenery.
