Thanks Kelda, Jess, Kerry and Susie!!
In case some of you are wondering how I made those car pictures (and you may have already figured it out) it's very easy! And since this is the Shutter Bug Club, I'll divulge my secret for you!
* First of all, print out one of your favorite landscape pictures, full size, on a standard sheet of printer paper. For these pictures I took, I used one of my "secret place" photos with a road in it.
* Next, position the picture so the bottom part is laying flat on a table or counter, and the top part is vertical, like this....
(Don't fold the paper, otherwise the crease might be visible in your picture)
I've already placed the toy on the paper to anchor it and keep it from sliding!
* Next, place your "subject" (the toy car, truck, statue, etc.) on the bottom part of the image. In this example, I placed the tiny motor home on the road part of the picture.
* Finally, adjust your camera's aperture to a mid or narrow setting to obtain some depth of field. I used f/5.6 in the example below so the background is partially blurred. In some of the original pictures I used f/8 to make the background clearer.
Then select your camera's macro lens (normally the button for the macro lens has a little flower icon next to it) and either zoom in on the subject, or move the camera closer to eliminate anything you don't want visible, such as the edge of the background or the table surface, and then shoot the picture.
It's pretty easy. I have a Hagrid figurine I gave to my Mom the year she died. She LOVED Hagrid! I am looking for a nice picture of Hogwarts, and once I find it, I will print it out and make a picture of the Hagrid figurine standing in front of the castle!!