Originally Posted by MPrince 
I'm not a big fan of photographs that don't look like photographs, but to each his own.
Try googling "the dave hill look" or go to the flickr strobist.com discussion group and search for "the dave hill look". You should get plenty of hits.
His high sat high contrast images are too much for me too. But I do like the latest Adventure Girl series. The strong highlight technique is not present in the
Beach girl, but the vivid tone and imagery is unmistakable.
Thanks for the strobist pointer.
I tried the double high pass filter technique in
Strobist can be useful in its own right.