Jacob, your photos were looking great!!!
Just a very few were a little out of focus (slow shutter speed?), you may want to up your shutter speed, try shooting shutter priority.
one way to do it, is that usually you would grind the stuff and mix it with something else, such as cedar or other type of dried herb/plant... the way it is used traditionally is to sprinkle it over burning embers. To use it as incense (like the stick or cone kind you have to crush it to a powder and then mix ith with something else that can stay lit.. like cedar shavings or sandlewood...) you cant do anything about the tar, that is the nature of using natural stuff... most incense are made with highly processed oils and extracts... but you would need some basic chemistry equipment to be able to extract the essential oils from the resin... it can be done though (you can extra essential oils from almost anything - SIDE NOTE: check out a movie called "Perfume")
You would need tubing (pyrex is the best), bunsen burner, flask (both regular and myers type), stopppers, pipetes, cooling basin (or refrigeration unit), and a vacum/pressure system (basically and compressor hooked up to a sealed container to increase/decrease pressure)... the rest is just basic chemistry techniques and reference book materials...
thats cool, but you don"t have to Bety and I went camping with Alfredo a couple of weeks later and I got a cupful. I know they use it just like that, but is there something that can be added to keep it from burning black, that oil/tar can get a little nasty. Bety and I are heading to El Paso this evening, your tia needs to replace the glasses she lost. Hey we went to the diving cliffs and Al jumped off, more like got pushed off. It was beautiful.
Hey, Jake hope all is well with the new job,,,just wanted to show your page some love ,,,hope you and my sis are injoying the computer I sold you guys looks like Brad hooked you guys up! miss you guys and take care thanks.