Tilt Shift photography

Tilt-Shift photography is a fancy pants term for making photos of real life trick the viewer's eye into believing the captured images are those of miniature model sets. There are cameras available that will take photos like this, or by using lens blur, over-saturation and a bit of high contrast you can do it yourself with any normal photo..






But it obviously helps to make them look like a model if you take the original photos from a higher perspective (examples taken from HERE)...




Here's a great tutorial if your interested in experimenting yourself.