The Orton Technique

This is something I hadn't heard of before, I saw it in the comments of this article, asking the question of the best photography tip you ever received. The two links I found about it that seemed to show it very nicely were:

• The Orton Effect - Tip of the week
• Wikipedia definition

Of course there's more out there, along with the flickr search for all images tagged with orton. I saw this originally at the Abbotsford Photography club done with slide film. Not a technique for all images, but very very cool looking.