Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share with you my final seasonal collage for 2025. My theme entails a night skyline that reflects a man's view of the environmental landscape. He desires that all be well in which humans and nature are compatible. The scowl on his face indicates he's displeased with some of what he's witnessed. All is not harmonious as he'd envisioned. I titled it Silent Night's Moon to reflect how the man suffers in silence as he's powerless to help.
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 and participate in the regular contests, just visit the Community's account to find out more information.
In preparing my theme, I relied upon an unusual image of a man's face partially exposed in which leaves surround his face. I decided to place his face in the skyline as though he's viewing the world from the moon. The images I included assisted in creating a lovely moonlit night that hides the reality of the landscape. The only indication of this is the man's countenance.
I utilized Canva to blend the different type images. Below are my procedures 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 needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
Below are the images I used.
| Item | Contributor | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain highland landscape | Unsplash | Link |
| Man's face in leaves | Pixabay | Link |
| Moon with stars | Public Domain Pictures | Link |
| Angel with blue wings | Pixabay | Link |
| White seagull flying | Contributed to the #LIL by | Link |
| Brown spotted deer | PurePNG | Link |
| Digital flower #1-2 | Contributed to the #LIL by | Link |
| Pure Fractal titled "White-2" | Link | |
| Pure Fractal titled "Illuminator" | Link |
Below is my completed 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 , 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).
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.