For my Freestyle Collage No. 26, my theme is a reflection of my thoughts today. Some days my thoughts wake up to a gleeful sunrise. Other days, my thoughts reel until a steady hand grabs hold and guides them back to some sense of normalcy.
Today is not one of those days where my thoughts began cheerful enough. But just as the sun is destined to set, my thoughts are destined to wander off the deep end and into perhaps the unimaginable.
I wanted to create two scenes that depict these thoughts.
Enjoy, if you have a mind to.
My first scene is centered around the sublime and beautiful aspect of nature and its interaction upon the animal kingdom. My focus was on the majestic elephants and their plight. I wrote about this previously, so in this scene, I decided to focus on them finding safe harbor.
My second scene involves aliens. A male and two females venture to Earth. They were sent on a discovery mission. Instructed to remain hidden underwater, they went undetected for several decades. Evidently, their physical characteristics allowed them to adapt to the aquatic surroundings.
However, they couldn't prevent humans from conducting underwater research. They were discovered by a diver exploring the strange sights inside a cave.
In preparing my scenes, I utilized two previous LMAC contest photos that I thought worked well together to provide a skyline and an underwater landscape:
Round 162 Original Contest Image
Round 161 Original Contest Image
For the elephant crossing scene, I didn't want to crowd the scene with numerous animals since I only wanted to focus on the elephants. I included the following images:
Gray elephants standing by PNGBozz at PurePNG
Red and Yellow Bird Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei
Digital white flower Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg
Fractal titled "Bird's Bowl" created by me in Apophysis7X
For the alien scene, I located two images I felt also worked well together. One was a male cyborg, the other was a female alien. An unusual pair to dwell in the ocean deep.
Below are the additional images I included to complete my theme:
Male cyborg by Insspirito at Pixabay
Artistic alien head at PxFuel
Butterflies in a jar by ChariVera at Pixabay
Diver silhouette by mohamed_hassan at Pixabay
Octopus by ChariVera at Pixabay
Mermaid in a leaf by Victoria_Watercolor at Pixabay
Quarter moon with flowers by Ridderhof at Pixabay
Green Crystals Contributed to the #LIL by @quantumg
Thanks for your visit. I hope you like my freestyle themes.
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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).
Happy rest of the week everyone with whatever your endeavors.
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