I think everybody has to do this when they get their first view camera.

I did something very similar when I first got my Omega E model. I shot overlooking Bisbee,Az. But I went for maximum dof and on a brighter day so the speed was high enough to stop action. This shot is very interesting to me. It has the look of a scale model shot which is what I thought it was at first. Very cool.

Thanks Walter - If I did not know this place (too well), I too would have thought it was a diorama or some sort of museum display. Tremendous effect. Thanks for sharing... And merry Xmas to you and Justine out there in Victoria... Hope you are getting plenty of new material on emulsion out there...

Yes and some us do it even after we have been using a LF camera for many years. Under the right creative conditions it's a very interesting effect.

The best to you and your sweetie.

This really shows how people are trained to interpret photographs. As has been noted previously, this does look like a scale model because of the tight depth of field and the way the focus falls off. Just what one would expect with a fixed lens camera doing a close-up. Intriging.