A photo I played with to create a faux tilt-shift effect (basically, blurring the foreground and background of the photo to create the illusion that the captured image is of a small, make-believe set):

Instructions for making your own tilt-shift photo in Photoshop.

While I was attending Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, a few brother seminarians and I had a long run of Monopoly tournaments, and we became quite adept at the game. Of course, my winning strategy was to always give up any and all properties to get Boardwalk and Park Place, buy a hotel, and hope someone hit the hotel before I went bankrupt...

I created this vector file (below) in Illustrator after many hours of path-tracing original Monopoly board art, my own hand-drawn designs,