This is an old image that I took some time back and was unable to get it blended correctly. I went back and tried again...
The original was this:
http://www.pbase.com/snoyes/image/6462887
It was high-contrast because I had not figured out how to blend multiple exposures to make a single image. I had taken two different images, one for the sky and one for the foreground but lacked the PP skills to pull it off. 3 years later, I thought I would try again and see what I would get.
For those wondering, this is much closer to what I actually saw with my eye at the time.