I *should* be sifting through the ten kazillion pictures we took while on vacation and writing a meaningful blog post. But.

Tilt-shift photography, or at least faking it, caught my attention today.

Needs a bit more work, don't you think? The original was taken at La Malène, along the Gorges du Tarn, in southern France.

◊ The entry on Wikipedia.
◊ External links on this Wikipedia entry on tilt-shift lens.
◊ The Flickr group for tilt-shift fakes.
◊ Examples of (imho) good and bad tilt-shifts.
◊ This tutorial by Christopher Phin.