The pics on this thread, although very very beautiful, somehow seems unnatural. Some of them almost seem like paintings rather than photos?
My camera has an HDR function. It works well to photograph interiors of cars, but that's about all I use it for. Somehow on "normal" photos it just doesn't look "right". Beautiful, yes. Natural, no.
In the Something Else Restaurant photo I prefer the top one. The bottom one looks nicer maybe, but when I stand there in real life the actual scene would look closer to the top photo than the bottom. The border around the 2nd photo makes it seem even more like a painting rather than a photo.