image - what do you think

[inkydigit]

http://bp1.blogger.com/_KXpnpwHJKHY/SCtXy6FFMLI/AAAAAAAAAwM/qqza6lv5USc/s1600-h/%2813%29.jpg

composite/matte painting or CG or real photo??

[Zylot]

I'm going with painting/composite on this, too much detail in the road/foliage around it for me to think it's CG.

[rcallicotte]

Composite - due to the appearance of the middle-left amalgamation.  Otherwise, I'm not sure.

[Thelby]

Both. Mattepainting technique with 3D and real images.

[latego]

Composite. The road is too detailed and natural to be anything but a photo while the building looks CG-ish.

[Henry Blewer]

Composite. I do like the building. Looks model railroad inspired.

[littlecannon]

It's all made out of Play-Doh®....

The scenery looks real... the detail on the path, I don't think anyone could replicate that detail in CG. The Building looks CG, and too convenient get such a dramatic shot.... with a rainbow to boot. Although, it could all be real and just been HDR'd to the max. Damn nice picture though.

[rcallicotte]

Inky, do you know?  Or this an exercise?

[cyphyr]

Matte Painting/composite, pretty much the same thing really
Nicely done although the scale is a little off as is the lighting.
I love being a critic, hehe, I could not do even close though 
Richard

[pfrancke]

What a wonderful find!!  I hope I live long enough to see something like that rendered in TG3.   Well, perhaps TG3.1

[Henry Blewer]

Richard, I've seen some of your stuff. It's good, and you could come close. Also, you are a great critic.

I still say composite. Is there an answer?

[inkydigit]

Inky, do you know?  Or this an exercise?

nah, just curious.... found whilst stumbling around the interweb!
I think it is a composite, possibly with 3d elements, though, this is tenuous... I like the picture though, i found it intriguing!