I would say it is real but also photoshoped.
It definitely looks like the saturation and histogram have been adjusted. This doesn't make the photo a fake, just that what was photographed has been optimized.
How often do you take a picture that doesn't do the subject justice? All the photographer has done is give the scene the justice it deserves and it is probably closer to what he/she saw than it was unprocessed.
Don't forget; when you take a photo it has to be developed, either in a dark room (film camera), by the software in your camera or by the photographer on a computer. It is not a matter of if it was processed but how.
IMHO.
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