You're Invited to Lobsterfest, 2021 | LET'S MAKE A COLLAGE: ROUND #74

When deciding what content I want my blog to include, I like it to be diverse. I love writing fiction. However, I'm also competitive. I like to participate in challenges and contests. I don't feel as though I'm super creative. I do manage to come up with some surprise contest entries. I've even won a few. But it's not whether I manage to win. There are numerous members on Hive who are extremely creative in all types of mediums.

So I enter several photography contest when time allows. Collages are especially fun. One of my favorite collage contest I like is Let's Make a Collage (LMAC) run by Hive account@shaka. In this challenge, Hive account@shaka provides a photograph for all participants' use in creating your own collage.

For my current collage entry this week, I started with the photograph provided by Hive account@shaka. The image is a lovely background of flowers with a single lobster in the foreground sitting on a piece of wood.

My first thought was that it was lonely and needed company. I decided to leave the photo exactly the same and only add additional images to it to describe the scene I envisioned.

^{Image used with permission of contest owner for contest}

My favorite tool to use in creating my collages is Canva.

I uploaded the contest photo into Canva. I like using Canva for my collages because it's easy to maneuver and manipulate the photos. That program contains numerous free photos you can use.

Following the contest rules, I added additional images below to the Canva image to complete my collage. I recently purchased a PRO membership at Canva because I loved the premium images, backgrounds and templates that came with the membership. Additionally, one of the features in a premium membership is the ability to remove backgrounds. This feature is especially nice to have since the free sites that offer removal of backgrounds, but the manual manipulation is tedious.
Pro Images from Canva.com for use by its PRO members:

Crumpled Paper speech bubble by Billion Photos
Regular Dacquiri by Elena Photos
Strawberry Dacquiri by Billion Photos

Now my collage is complete with a friend and drinks to get the party started. On the drink menu is your favorite flavor of Margarita!

Below is the final result.

^{Image created in Canva by Hive account@justclickindiva utilizing one of its free backgrounds}

Let me know in the comments below whether you like my collage. You can join in too by following the contest rules below. I'd like to see what you can create with the contest image.

CONTEST RULES

What is Let's Make a Collage?	It is a weekly photography and collage contest.
Who created the contest?	Hive account@shaka 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 collage 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 need to be posted to the LMAC community and should contain a reference to this post.
	3. 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.
	4. 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 the public domain (having no copyright protection).
	5. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote.
	6. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected.
	7. Entries need to set the LMAC community account as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.;
What do you win?	Prizes listed on the contest owner's post.

Hive account@flaxz - @iamalivechallenge (Created a post for the LMAC Contest for my blog today.)

Thanks,
Hive account@justclickindiva

Happy rest of the week everyone with whatever your endeavors.

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.

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