The second shot has had no Photoshopping done to it. I ran it through Lightroom 2 and cropped to get the lamp post out, increased the clarity and vibrance, and most importantly (this made the biggest impact) raised the contrast to high. A little tweaking on the tone curves and voila - that was all.
I guess life in the photography world has reached a point that if a photo is good, its been "Photoshopped". Sadly, there are a lot of photos out there that have not been significantly altered and stand on their own merit. But people will look at a photo and say, "that's really good, I wonder how they did that in Photoshop?".
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