Be sure to check out the Internet Ray Tracing Competition: www.irtc.org
Has a lot of similar work, some of it far more impressing imho, especially older entries.
What a switch! It's usually a matter of, "that's not real, it's CGI (or Photoshopped)." This is just the opposite. How do we know it isn't a real photo? It looks so realistic I'm still not convinced.