Diaorama Photogarphy

I had spend all of my teenage and childhood fascinated by these dramatic scenes that had been shown in movies, For instance a scene in which  flood is coming and the buildings are cracking down due to earthquake...I had been wondering if the cinematographers had been spending so much on re-creating a distruction scene...not anymore
The technique used in creating such enormous scene is called Diorama or Diorama photography...well for this post i am posting some works of the Photographer Lori Nix...

These images has been created in a way that they look real but actually there are mini scape or mini sculptures that are set in a way that they look real...when i first  looked at these works it appeared to me so natural and was so keen to know more and more about it, the next time i post i would be looking forward to post about the images that look so dramatic that one could literally think that they are computer generated images but they are diorama photography images...looking forward to your suggestions.