The power of tilt-shift

I recently found out about tilt-shift photography on photobucket while searching through its database. Like shown in the photo(left), the objects or people seem toy-like, almost like miniatures in a real world setting.
You may doubt the authenticy of this photograph as a real-world photo, but I have to say that it is real. The method to creating such a photograph is either by using a tilt-shift lens for optical type of tilt shift; or for digital editing, you could use a photo editor and blur the surroundings. It would certainly create a splendid fake miniature photo.
But of course, the original photo must first possess some qualities like a not-too-fine and intricate details such that it would be able to look toy-like after editing. Below are more tilt-shift pictures:

~Hope you like them!~

Life~Replayed

Jiang Haolie