Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share my current freestyle collage whose theme entails an unusual facility where services are rendered. 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 visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 245 - ✨41 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
"Just look at the line forming. Ridiculous. Personally I think it's a bit much, topped off with an ego pursuit, and totally overrated," Morris quipped as he sat high on a tree branch overlooking Wholesomeness Park.
As advertised, Wholesomeness Park opened on time on the outskirts of Wellington on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Touted as the newest facility to usher in its Wellness for Everyone campaign, the facility attracted the locals in its citywide circulation posters. The earlier mild day where clouds skipped happily across the sky quickly turned cloudy.
Creatures of all kind gathered to take part in the community service to improve the health and happiness of all its animal residents. All were welcome, and no one would be excluded or turned away.
He glanced back to see whether his wife, Gladys, would come take a look. But she wasn't as curious as he. Besides, she'd already noticed various animals taking advantage of the two-day advertised special.
"Gladys, there's something odd going on down there," Morris whispered as he moved to a lower branch. "Take a look at the water. That's no standard company contraption."
Gladys approached her husband and hunched behind him, careful not to rustle the branch. Her eyes grew wide.
There standing in the middle of the park was a hand protruding from the ground. It held in its hand some type of clear crystal object from which water flowed. What was odd about the washing device was that it was attached to roots springing up from the earth.
"Morris, look. There!" she pointed, pacing back and forth on the limb. "There's something fishy in those suds. See, the canine is foaming at the mouth and turning ash white! He's been cursed. That evil eye is casting upon him a spell. That's no purifying the soul and all that wellness junk we read about."
"Perhaps the cleansing process will eliminate all those impurities and wash them away," he postured as though knowing more than the advertisement promised. "Calm down, Gladys. Let's not ruin that business' reputation before we get the facts."
"I'm not going near that evil bathhouse! No sir." Gladys backed away, scurried down the tree and headed north toward home.
Gladys has always been stuck in the past. This is a new era. New thinking. New ways of doing things, Morris surmised.
Still, he cocked his head to the side and peered intently at the glass orb, piercing its outer shell to the core where the water originated.
To his surprise, the orb's eye turned in his direction. A bulb flashed red. Morris gripped the branch as his legs weakened. Not able to hold on any longer, he tumbled from the tree.
A clump of white roots attached to the hand holding the orb scratched its way toward Morris' limp body. Catching the end of his tail, the roots pulled him in the direction of the hand.
Morris meowed as loud as he could, hoping his wife or someone would come to his aid. Sweating profusely, he tore at the ground with his nails as hard as he could. No solid object lay within his reach to anchor himself,
The community planners had done an excellent job of removing any obstacles that prevented their clients from enjoying the luxuries of the Park.
Two gray balls above the orb whined as if their gearbox had failed. The motor ramped up to a high pitch as the orb turned colors and spewed out some foamy liquid.
Next, the hollow-ringed voice from behind the orb shouted.
In preparing my collage theme, I wanted to present an unusual setting where in theory animals could congregate and be well groomed. The main focus of the theme is not the animals attending the facility, but a bystander who's observing the activities. Sensing something is amiss, the onlooker encounters a different facility than what was advertised. I hope my short story accompanying the collage reflects this discrepancy.
In pulling together the various images, I utilized Canva to blend them. One of the items that is pouring the liquid is a hand protruding from the landscape through roots.
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.
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Below are the images I included to complete my theme.
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| Item | Contributor | Source |
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| Black Dog - Contest Image Round 245 | Contributed to the #LIL by  | Link |
| Hand holding landscape with waterfall | Pixabay | Link |
| Frog Couple | Pixabay | Link |
| Palm tree | Contributed to #LIL by  | Link |
| Alien insect | Contributed to #LIL by  | Link |
| Tree portal | Contributed to #LIL by | Link |
| Blue eye | Contributed to #LIL by | Link |
| Island blue water | Contributed to #LIL by  | Link |
| Alien worm | Contributed to #LIL by  | Link |
| Duck | Contributed to #LIL by  | Link |
| Black and White Cat | Contributed to #LIL by | Link |
| Black and White Horse | Contributed to #LIL by | Link |
| Brown Cow | Contributed to #LIL by | Link |
| Pure Fractal titled "Gray Spider" |  | Link |
Below is my completed collage:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
, 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).
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/
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.