No need to beat around the bush here, that image had a large amount of post processing. Highlights where there should be shadows, colours have been boosted greatly, smoothing and detail boosting out the wazoo lol!
But there isn't anything against that in the Your Shot rules. I thought NG would frown on it but this is a user based vote. Look at something like Daniel Radcliff's HDR photography. Completely artificial but cool as all hell, most of the time anyways
I'm not a sore loser, they beat me fair and square
All the best!