Attached Link: PHOTOSHOP Matte Painting

For example, is this matte painting, as the guy seems to believe?

Read the reactions from people, quite fun..

"A painting is a painting. A digitally manipulated photograph is a digitally manipulated photograph."
"I found it quite awesome"
"not an ordinary digital photo not even photoshopped - looks to be a rendered 3D model.."
"I think the author did a great job exemplifying this technique.."

and so on and so on..
http://digg.com/design/Awesome_Photoshop_Painting_Skills