My theme for Freestyle Collage No. 42 focused on a small boy's fantasy. He envisions an image as he wanders offsite with his family on a camping outing. From the river's edge, he spots a large gull whose gaze is fixated on a female's face over the water. Soon, the image materializes.
Other images float to the surface until the boy is surrounded by magical entities.
In preparing my theme, I wanted to showcase a pure fractal I created in Apophysis 7X, an advanced version of the fractal rendering software. As I moved the transform into place, I knew I would be utilizing this fractal as a female's headpiece.
I located a lovely background for the scene that depicts water near a forest. The image paired well with my pure fractal.
Source
Below are the additional images I included to complete the scene:
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Child crouching at PxFuel
Little Egret standing Contributed to the #LIL by @digitalis
Blue Moon2 Contributed to the #LIL by @mynatasha
Pink female face Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
Pure Fractal entitled "Gray Skull" created by me in Apophysis
Pure Fractal entitled "Dragon Tail" created by me in Apophysis
Pure Fractal entitled "Birds Bowl" created by me in Apophysis
Pure Fractal entitled "Cross of Purity2" created by me in Apophysis
Pure Fractal entitled "Ice Bombs" created by me in Apophysis
Blending my images was made easier by the use of the design program, Canva. My upgraded Annual Pro Membership Subscription allowed me to remove the background and colorize some of the images.
The free sourced photo was added first as the background. It did not cover the entire canvas, so I duplicated and reversed the image to fill in the entire canvas.
Next, I added the lovely female face I located at the LMAC's LIL courtesy of the contribution of @eve66.
For the young boy, I located a perfect image of a boy crouching and looking out toward the forest.
My own personal favorite is the pure fractal I created that I used as a hat for the female's face.
Other images, some from the LIL and my own personal inventory of pure fractals I created rounded out the scene after positioning them. I love how the items blended well and added a sense of mystery and magic.
Below is the completed freestyle collage:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it and hope you liked my freestyle collage.
CONTEST RULES
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a weekly photography and collage contest. |
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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 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 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.
