Side-tracked while researching

While conducting research on the web into similar photographic projects I came across a new toy.  Although it isn't something which I intend to use in this project I wanted to share it simply because it is fun!

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com

here's one I made earlier:

Not the best quality but hopefully you can get the idea.  The first is the original image, and the second is the 'model'.
I have a horrible feeling that I could lose hours on this........