..and the darkness came over me..

.. I used a photomatix preset from here:  http://store.stuckincustoms.com/tools/photomatix-presets  on this one.

Not something I usually do.  Neat little reasonably priced collection of presets to thumb through in the event that the photomatix sliders aren't yielding what you want....  The cool part, I thought.. was I could see four or five other, just as compelling ways to post process the same photo.  

I won't.. because I took 400 of these yesterday and have others to share, lol :)