Cool! I ate a big calamari tube stuffed with shrimp in a white sauce with sourdough toast at a restaurant there while on business in the early 90's(for breakfast). It was awesome!

I digress. I've never tried this technique before, although I want to, but yours looks pretty good!

Nice shot but I don't think you have achieved the effect

give your shots really different titles or they will be pulled because you are giving away who the author is by keeping them so close in names!
awesome shots though.

play with contrast and HDR toning... this has some major potential (in the tute you can add saturation.. I really like where this is going.. it's a very neat image... good luck

Very nice, but the lack of resolution in the source pic diminishes the impact of your work by diminishing the contrast between the in-focus and out-of-focus portions.

Dan, pretty well stuck with this image,, as it was taken a few years back from a very long distance away, and with a lower resolution (mega-pixel) camera.. But I do appreciate the comments

taking a miniature and making it look further like a miniature. hmmm i dunno doesnt count to me.

great idea author...cool title...gl

AWWWWWWWWWWW I WANT ONE!!!