Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share my current collage for the contest. If you'd like to join in the Community's contests or create freestyle designs, visit: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 233 - ✨25 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
My theme consists of a feline heroine whose mission is to protect the stray cats in her area from predator canines. Over the past several years, predators have multiplied due to dangerous, aggressive invasive species brought into the area by collectors. Once they tired of the animals, they released them in the surrounding areas, not realizing the danger to other docile creatures.
Her mode of travel is a re-engineered skateboard. She hydroplanes with the assistance of a water hydrant. It would seem as though the hydrant would be extremely heavy. However, the outer casing was constructed of a durable plastic material.
Equipped with advanced twin engines, the hydrant skateboard is able to hover over the territory and spray a repellent substance on the canines or any other predator that threatens the feline population.
She patrols in shifts. Her electronic helmet signals when danger approaches.
Her name is HYDRO. And she's the protector of all the range she surveys.
In preparing my theme, I searched for and located a feline on a skateboard. Together with dismantling the fire hydrant into workable separate pieces, I was able to layer the arms and top of the hydrant to create an underbelly as an attachment to the skateboard. Unused was the hydrant body.
The landscape I decided would be a harsh environment. With my pure fractal I designed in the advanced fractal rendering program, Apophysis 7X, I was able to create the thrust for the hydrant engine boosters. Other images were free-sourced.
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| Item | Contributor | Source |
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| Water Hydrant | Contributed to the #LIL by @evagavilan2 | Link |
| Desert scene | PxFuel | Link |
| Woman with clam shell hat | PxFuel | Link |
| Cat on skateboard | Pixabay | Link |
| Fantasy skateboard | Pixabay | Link |
| Fire stick | Pure fractal owned by @justclickindiva | Link |
| Pack of dogs | Pixabay | Link |
| Red cape | Pixabay | Link |
| Waterfall | PurePNG | Link |
I then utilized Canva to blend the dimages. Below are my steps in which I begin with a blank, white canvas, then added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, resizing, duplicating, colorizing, and repositioning items as needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
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Below is my completed collage design for the LMAC Round 233 contest entry:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my collage theme.
CONTEST RULES
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a monthly photography and collage contest where monthly entries can be submitted. |
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| Who created the contest? | @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 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 (@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. |
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.