What I hear you saying is...

Basically he found it really challenging to take good long-range shots of sports because there was no way to tighten the focus on his subject. It's not clear whether he is using a diffusion filter or some kind of post-processing work in photoshop, but the results are really cool. Check out this shot of the Kentucky Derby:

I like that it these shots are so cozy -- like shoe box dioramas you'd construct in elementary school.

So it got me wondering whether I could try the same thing with landscape photography. I don't shoot much on "infinity" focal length, so I didn't have a lot to choose from. But I grabbed a quick shot I took in the Eastern Sierras at Manzanar and started experimenting.

By choosing the traffic signs as the focal point, I then began adding concentric-circles of masking around them, slowly increasing the size and adding gaussian blur with each increase. Here is the result: (click to see original size)

Feels to me like a model train-set macro shot. This is definitely something I want to experiment with more...