Challenge - Week 38

This week's quote comes from a scripture. Since I am not comfortable using my blog to promote what I do not believe, I will only provide the words that I pursued:

Strong, Courage, Fear not, nor be afraid

This Week

I didn't have many ideas for this week's challenge, and I only have two pictures to share publicly. While I have been told that there should be no more spiders for the challenges, the spider web did not contain a spider. I felt like I could get away with it. The Dudley Do-Right picture took a bit more work. I was tempted to add that he was forsaking (another challenge word) mental ability, but there were concerns that people might not get what I was saying. As for the picture itself, I resorted to HDR because I was struggling with the lighting. I hated the original background, so I put up a blue sheet to hide the distractions. After I put everything away, I was wondering if I could get away with an improvised chroma key element. I took pictures of simple tree backgrounds today. I didn't want anything to stand out since it was meant to be a background. Hopefully, nobody complains that there is rain in the background while the table remains dry. When I tried to replace the blue, I couldn't get rid of an ugly edge around the bear. I found a plug-in for Paint.Net, and it worked well enough for me. The blue tint of the sheet reflecting off of the table resulted in a little transparency to the table, but I felt that if a sheet could reflect, so could the trees. That means I used 4 shots (3 HDR + 1 background) in that 1 final picture.

Pictures

	People who fear spiders should be able to find the COURAGE to view this picture. They should FEAR NOT NOR BE AFRAID since there is no spider in the web.
	Dudley Do-Right is showing COURAGE by sitting next to a STRONG and enormous bear. He is Not showing any FEAR as he is not AFRAID of it.

Flickr Friday - White Space

I still have that backlog going. Even though I never had any interesting ideas pop into my head as a potential starting point, I probably would have pursued this one if I wasn't worried about higher priorities.