I wanted to keep the look started in each image. The most fantastic sights I know of are at Mount Rainier National Park and The Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan. Ice and fire, cold and desolate, dry and moist.

Some appeared to make impressive poster-like material, so I tried to induce that effect with different filters.

Other images were so picturesque, they only looked good through filters that simulated paintings.

A few had such layering in the image, it only seemed appropriate to soften the detail and toy with the contrast contrast.

There was a hidden rainbow in this image, and I brought it out. For the portrait, I chose a diffused glow, hiding the detail of my face while simultaneously preserving contours.

For the animation project, I began with one of my favorite books, hoping to put together a story that mirrored that of the book it was in, namely My Side of the Mountain. I planned out the points in the book at which I would want to do certain drawings. My default method for execution is to begin with extravagant detail, and gradually become sketchy, and this case was no exception. I found myself defeated with only one weekend remaining. I had excited myself with the idea of going limitless with my creativity: cutting, ripping, adding external elements, etc.

I soon felt some remorse for the little book. It was a huge undertaking that I had tackled, and I felt a little guilty with my plans to destroy it in the animation process. I then considered how I would rather do that to a book I hated, such as Fahrenheit 451, and then I got the grand idea of how I am really skilled at drawing fire, and I could even burn the book at the end! How ironic that would have been, if only I didn't hate that book so much that I had already done this to any copies I previously owned (which is zero to be exact). There was no time to order one, so I had to resort to a different book. I found this one that has a match on the front, and with renewed confidence, I let my tired sketchy hand perform my unbeatable flame-drawing skills. I still did some destructive animation tactics, and planned to burn the back cover, except for lack of matches, lighters, or flint & steel, much less a place to do that.

I laid a blanket over a toilet in a bathroom, since it is an immovable object with a right angle and a blanket can easily be draped over it. This made a perfect layout. Next, I lit it with an on-camera mounted light, chose a prime lens that would capture the entire book from a decent distance, and laid the book on its side, flipping each page down carefully so as not to shake the book. I still had to adjust focus a number of times, but I minimized camera shake by using a cable-connected trigger to trip the camera shutter. This expedited the process significantly. The exporting process was a nightmare, because the shots were out of sequence, and I couldn't get the export to a good quality upload for YouTube and the frames kept stuttering in the raw file.
The destruction and nonlinear page progression complement the creative process; it highlights how unique the creative process is for the individual and cannot be repeated.