Okay, so I'm now to the inside of the track when it comes to scenery - outside the track was pretty simple, but going inside meant I had to decide what Lone Hill Park actually looks like. 

I decided to start with the walking paths in order to define sections to the park - a large field for kite flying, smaller sections for picnic tables, and of course Lone Hill, with it's path to the top. 

I had a bit of an "oops" photo tonight, whereas my hand interfered a bit with a long exposure.

But as I look at it, though it does appear to be a hand, I realize this interference could be used to our advantage.

We've all seen the pictures with smoke, soot and dust added to the scene as an aftereffect by way of such tools as photoshop.  Me personally, I preferred photos back before photoshop - if there was smoke, it was either a prop IN the picture, or it was the result of combining negatives.

I made "puff ball" trees in just a few minutes by using the furnace filter technique

http://royhoffman.com/pwrr/fftrees

I left the skewer trunks out and just used one layer of filter material.

Been Working on this project off an on for about a month and finely got it completed.