Little known fact When you grow up , you don ' t find out Santa isn ' t real , he just stops bringing you toys and keeps bringing you freedom . It ' s the gifts you can ' t see that are the real magic . ' Murica Believes . <| sep |> I was thinkin , we should have a second chance voting day . Where after we have the president elect , we reopen the polls to everyone who did not vote the first time around , and if the people who didn ' t vote and are unhappy with the outcome to come out and either vote for the other one or support the already elect . Would be a good way to increase voting turnout . Probably wouldn ' t work though but it would be cool if it did . <| sep |> You too ! Happy Thanksgiving <| sep |> Over USD $ 500 <| sep |> Well , the ' proper ' way to do it would be to use a tilt shift lens . See the following way I did it was with Photoshop , here ' s the before and after . Now most tiltshift photoshops are really simple , they just blur the top and bottom and call it a day . Which is really not the right way to do it , because then the lights become indistinguishable and it looks very flat . I did the following Duplicated the photo layer and cleaned out the top 34 s of the Eiffel Tower . On this duplicate , I could then blur the background easily and put the Eiffel Tower back over it , without blurring the Tower itself . The blurring was done in steps with duplicate layers of the Towerless version each layer with a less wide radius of Lens Blur , so that the foreground and background would have growing sizes of bokeh . The Specular Highlights option was important to get the lights to really shine through . Using layer masks , masked out a ' strip ' of sharp areas , representing the focused area . This strip becomes broader as you go to more blurred layers , which represents the growing amount of bokeh the further away from the focused area you look . Over the blurred layers , I put a duplicate of the original sharp photograph , and masked out everything except the top 34 s of Eiffel Tower . This brings back a sharp Tower over a blurred background .