Tilt Shift. It makes big things mini

I'm a big fan of new ideas, new styles, design memes, stuff like that. The newest kid on the block these days is Tilt Shift Photography, or Tilt Shift Miniature Faking. It's great. Basically, it's a method to take your boring old pictures, and make them look miniature. I don't mean resizing them to 64x48 pixels; no, that would just be daft, I mean making your pictures look like they wouldn't be out of place as a backdrop for Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

Some people are already amazing at it. Check out some Tilt Shift examples on Flickr. Me on the other hand, I'm just average. So far anyway, but I've only had two go's and the images weren't ideal in the first place. Need some with everything a bit further away really.

Yes, I know a bad worker blames his tools (though I am only rocking out Photoshop CS2 at home - badly need to upgrade to CS4), but I like them for my first attempts. Let me know what you think. Unless it's nasty. I don't think I could handle that right now.

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UPDATE:
I've done a few more now with some better piccies. Now waddya think. Not so mean anymore huh Huh HUH!!!