Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share with you my current freestyle collage. My theme entails a female who considers herself a world traveler. She's visited famous sites. Met famous and not-so-famous individuals. Glimpsed historical wonders of the world. And experienced all that each country has to offer society. She called it "doing life".
Now that's an awesome way to look at doing whatever pleases you.
My style of collage is a Freestyle. Although I usually do, I wasn't required to utilize any contest photo in my design. However, if you'd like to join in the current contest, visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 243 - ✨35 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
In preparing my theme, I considered including the current LMAC Contest photo, which was actually utilized as a previous contest image in Round 186. A barren landscape, I decided to include it as one of the destinations that the female traveler visited, such as Easter Island, Petra, Machu Picchu, The Colosseum, Taj Mahal, Nasca Lines, and Great Pyramid of Giza to name a few.
Adding several images from the LMAC LIL database, I transformed the site into a historical one with treasured monuments. Of course, the vehicle used in the last contest provided the means for visiting the destinations once she arrived in the various countries.
Below are the images I included to complete my theme:
| Item | Contributor | Source |
|---|---|---|
| LMAC Round 186 Contest Image |  @lmac | Link |
| LMAC Round 208 Contest Image | @lmac | Link |
| LMAC Round 117 Contest Image | @lmac | Link |
| LMAC Round 242 Contest Image | Contributed to #LIL by  @seckorama | Link |
| Female with numerous versions of face | Pexels | Link |
| Fantasy cascading waterfall | Pixabay | Link |
| Scrapbook travel background | Pexels | Link |
| Green pasture | Pixabay | Link |
| Allenwood Stone Sculpture | Contributed to #LIL by  @agmoore | Link |
| Public sculpture-"Gan Haatzmaut" in Holon | Contributed to #LIL by  @alex2alex | Link |
| Blue damselfly on dry grass | Contributed to #LIL by @alex2alex | Link |
| Escultura Esfinge | Contributed to #LIL by  @hernleon74 | Link |
| Eagle in flight | Contributed to #LIL by  @redheadpei | Link |
I then utilized Canva to blend the different type images. Below are my steps in which I began with a blank, white canvas, then added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, resizing, detaching elements from their backgrounds, duplicating, colorizing, and repositioning items as required, incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
Below is my completed collage:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.
It is imperative that you read the post LMAC School - Public Domain Picture sources (Free Materials for creating collages) by 
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a photography and collage contest where entries can be submitted. |
|---|---|
| Who created the contest? | @quantumg is the contest owner. |
| What type of contest is it? | This Contest utilizes a single photo provided by the contest owner as the basis for you to create your own photo collages by adding to the photo provided. |
| What are the rules? | 1. Use as your starting point for your collage the photography provided by the contest owner. It is located on the contest owner's post for free use without any copyright protection. |
| 2. Entries are required to be posted to the LMAC community and must contain a link to the contest post. | |
| 3. Entries need to set the LMAC account (@lmac) as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.; | |
| 4. Extra support with the LMAC trail to all collages where LIL assets have been included AND the respective LIL-contributors set as 2% beneficiaries; | |
| 5. By submitting your contribution you agree that your artwork remains public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission. | |
| 6. Any graphical element that is added to the photography either needs to be your own original work (e.g. own artwork or photography) OR needs to derive from sites whitelisted by LMAC. | |
| 7. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote. | |
| 8. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected. | |
| What do you win? | Prizes listed on the contest owner's post. |
Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.
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SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
English is my native language.
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.
