Silent Night's Moon | LMAC FreeStyle Collage No. 142

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 Hive account@redheadpei	Link
Brown spotted deer	PurePNG	Link
Digital flower #1-2	Contributed to the #LIL by Hive account@quantumg	Link
Pure Fractal titled "White-2"	Hive account@justclickindiva	Link
Pure Fractal titled "Illuminator"	Hive account@justclickindiva	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 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.