Connecting With Your Roots | LMAC FreeStyle Collage No. 155

Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share my current collage. My theme entails a woman searching for her family history. 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 or design a freestyle, visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 247 - ✨41 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.

Exploring and connecting with your family ancestry may prove difficult. This is especially true for certain groups of people who were denied the ability to document their history. Diaspora proved devastating to those individuals who never were able to reconnect with their ancestors.

In preparing my theme, I definitely desired to utilize the contest photo showing a replica of the Sphinx statute. Although numerous replicas exist, they're based on the ancient Egyptian era discoveries.

I also included two of my pure fractals I created in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X. One fractal titled "Blinds" provided the veil for the female's face that conveys the fact that she's been in the dark for a long time in her search for her ancestors. The hourglass contributed to the #LIL library served as a perfect reflection of time passed.

Below are the additional images I included to complete my theme:

Item	Contributor	Source
LMAC Contest Image-Statute	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@hernleon74	Link
Orange and black abstract background	Pixabay	Link
African Female	Pixabay	Link
African Kings	Pixabay	Link
Venetian Mask	Pixabay	Link
White Cloth	Pixabay	Link
Brown Hourglass	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@quantumg	Link
Yellow Flower on black background	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@borjan	Link
Pink Wild Onion Flower	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@borjan	Link
Small Elongated Mushroom	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@borjan	Link
Pure Fractal titled "Julian Blinds"	Hive account@justclickindiva	Link
Pure Fractal titled "Star Flower"	Hive account@justclickindiva	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, duplicating, detaching elements from their backgrounds, colorizing, and repositioning items as needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.

Below is my completed collage design:

Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.

CONTEST RULES

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

It is imperative that you read the post LMAC School - Public Domain Picture sources (Free Materials for creating collages) by

Hive account@quantumg, which discusses public domain issues. The post offers valuable information on images for commercial use. Links are included to sources that offer public domain images and other images that are free for commercial uses. Using public domain pictures and free pictures for commercial use are requirements for all collages that are submitted as entries in the LMAC contest and the LMAC Image Library (LIL).

What is Let's Make a Collage?	It is a photography and collage contest where entries can be submitted.
Who created the contest?	Hive account@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 (Hive 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.

SUPPORTS THESE COMMUNITIES:

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.