This image was featured at the International Photography Hall of Fame in an exhibit called The Past, Present, and Future of Nature Photography.

It's an alligator, taken on a Canon 7D + EF 800/5.6L IS in south Texas. Before editing, this was a very bland image, and I was about to delete it when a friend suggested this edit. This was also during the heyday of oversaturated HDRs.

Edited in Lightroom using Process Version 2, Recovery, Contrast, Clarity, and Vibrance were set to the max possible. Saturation was reduced, and Fill Light and the black point was raised. Nothing else was adjusted