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Yeah, that's because they are all manipulated to look that way. They are beautiful as art but if you were standing where the photographer stood and seeing these scenes with your eyes, this is not what you would see. In an increasingly digital world where everything we see is manipulated, I am starting to long more for photos that show me what my eyes would see. Ironically it hasn't been all that long that we've been able to do that very well with cameras at resolutions that approximate our visual capabilities. Yet soon after we could do that we've switched to making photos look like paintings.
Its never been true that cameras capture what you see exactly, our vision is constantly adjusting for light value. If I take a picture of a sunset facing the sun, I can see both the sky and the ground in good detail, if you want to accomplish that with a photo, you'll either need a gradient filter and overexpose, or take bracketed shots and transpose them. (e: what I mean to say is, to get to a point of what the artist sees, it always requires post processing)
There's also the issue that our vision has a very narrow point in which you process fine details, just try to read something in your periphery, you'll find the spot you can read is quite small.
Either way, I'm being a pendant, I know what you mean, some of the best shots in this series are the abstract ones IMHO, they represent a change in perspective we don't take into account or see often, the wide ones that are clearly trying to represent a scene are very processed, to the point where I see how AI came to give glowy soft edges to everything