I take it that this was intended for me Leon. Thats OK - we're friends that go way back.
In reference to the image in question, you suggested that it was probably "over" processed in your mind, and I merely wanted to point out that I doubt that it was actually "processed" much at all. I know how he works, and he really, really hates altering what the camera gives him straight off the bat. I was there that morning with him, and the setting was itself surreal - he captured it brilliantly.
He may have used a Cokin filter to darken the sun a little, but really nothing more. He may even have used the sky from a less-exposed shot and transposed it over the sky in a shot that exposed the under-sky section more to his liking. The result might look "plastic" to you, but that's pretty-much how the light was. Truly!
I doubt that the real captured tones were altered in Photoshop in the traditional "twirl a few knobs, push a few sliders and we'll see how dramatic we can get it to look" sense.
If you don't like it then of course it's OK to say it - it's a free world! I certainly agree that we probably don't normally say here what we truly feel about images. We're not here to upset people though, so encouragement is usually given - and so it should be. Criticism is handed out on many, many images here though - and fairly-so in my observation. There are plenty of "maybe it would have been better if..." comments attributed to many, many posts and I think that's fantastic that people asked to critique actually do! It's the only way for us to learn.