one word. "WOW!" That is AMAZING! Perfect angle, and the sun creates a perfect circle behind the statue!
EDIT
You said it was a manip? Does that mean the background really wasn't cloudless and the sun wasn't really behind there? Very nice picture anyways! Very vivid
Dang! Too late to be seeing a different kind of JonMikal-pic. Hmph. Would have liked to see it so I'd know what you're talking about when you call one of your photos "trash", manipulated, OVER-manipulated or what. (I sometimes - and just for fun - deliberately over-manipulate my photos, just so I can see what all I can do with them and what limited post processing software I've got).