Celebrations and Gift For Fall | LET'S MAKE A COLLAGE: ROUND #146 (Complimentary)

It's time for another collage week at Let's Make a Collage ("LMAC"). In Round #146, members are again given a nice landscape. This week, the concept is truly open to interpretation as only a rock formation with sand is included in the contest image. But a lovely hazy blue sky is available. This should be interesting to see all the themes LMAC members envision.

To create the themes for my two collages, I started with the photograph provided by @shaka in his contest post: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 146 - ✨138 HIVE in the Prize Pool!

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

COLLAGE #1: Halloween Celebration of a Different Kind

In my first collage theme, I wanted to explore the celebration of Halloween. Some cultures embrace the holiday season, while others don't indulge in all the activities surrounding the holiday. In the U.S. large celebrations, parties with costumes, and the tradition of exchanging sweets is anticipated each year.

COLLAGE #2: The Gift

Gifts come to us in unexpected and sometimes under mysterious circumstances. Either the giver or the recipient may not be known. Whether one accepts a gift has many factors. One would hope no conditions are attached to be able to enjoy the benefits.

COLLAGE #3: A Halloween Wedding

Weddings are held at all times during a year. While, I haven't heard about wedding celebrations being held during the Halloween holiday, I wanted to create a theme of how I envision the nuptials could be accomplished with the right decor and ensemble.

Below are the items I utilized to create the collage themes.

COLLAGE No. 1 (Halloween Celebration):

A holiday celebration theme. I discovered a lovely, unique background with which to add Halloween items to depict the occasion. The background image I created with the program Night Cafe, an open source, free stable diffusion software that generates images from text inputs called "prompts".

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I uploaded these images, together with others below into Canva to blend the scene and take advantage of my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.

• Skeleton by Paul Cuoco at Unsplash
• Old street lamp by UpMeHolidays from PurePNG
• Cat Surreal Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66
• Blue moon Contributed to the #LIL by @mynatasha
• Woman figure Contributed to the #LIL by @mballesteros
• Beautiful female mask at PxFuel
• Fractal snake skin created by me in Apophysis 2.09

COLLAGE #2 (The Gift):

In creating my scene for this collage, relied upon two images I located to create a surreal background. Other images from the LIL contributed to make this scene ethereal:

• Hands receiving by ATDS PHOTO at Pixavay

• Fantasy man with purple butterfly face at PxFuel

• Mourning cloth portrait at PxFuel

• Seagull landing Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei

• Moon2 Contributed to the #LIL by @mynatasha

• SciFi Ball Contributed to the #LIL by @pinkgirl4

• Fractal Red and Yellow Bouquet created by me in Apophysis 2.09

COLLAGE #3 (Halloween Wedding):

To create this wedding collage, I opted to produce my own background utilizing stable diffusion. I again used Night Cafe and Deep Dream Generator to create the image of the bride and groom.

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Adding other images primarily from LIL, I uploaded all into Canva to blend and create my wedding scene.

• Halloween Candy at Canva-samgrandy

• Bench at Canva-tupungato

• Cupcake: at Canva-teekris

• Tree Portal Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66

• Quarter Moon Contributed to the #LIL by @redheadpei

• Ghost figure Contributed to the #LIL by @mballesteros

• Flower Contributed to #LIL by @eve66)

• Surreal Flower Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66

• Scary Figure Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66

Thanks for your visit. I hope you enjoyed my collage themes.

CONTEST RULES

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

It is imperative that you read the post LMAC School - Public Domain Picture sources (Free Materials for creating collages) by @quantumg, 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).

What is Let's Make a Collage?	It is a weekly photography and collage contest.
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.

Thanks,
@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.
f) Image created in Canva by @justclickindiva utilizing one of its free templates.

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