Sean pointed out Christopher Phin’s Fake Model Photography tutorial that shows you how to transform a photo into what appears to be a macro shot of a miniature model. Turns out this meme has been out for a while, and there a few collections of the style.

Easily distracted today, I looked through the iPhoto collection I have locally and experimented with a few pictures. I like the one below best.

Before:

After:

I’ll likely play with some more photos and upload those to flickr if they turn out interesting enough.