LMAC211: Perseverance

Hello everyone! 😎📷

Here's my entry to the Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 211 - 55 HIVE in the Prize Pool!

The basic image is a lovely (and challenging) source for a collage. I assume it's from an aquarium. But I had to put it in a different perspective. Specifically, from it, I created a kaleidoscope, i.e., a visual effect, which is still in this reality of ours and is the basis for the story of perseverance or the fish in hand.
No matter how divided we may be, we must persevere to achieve our goals despite mental, physical, or ideological barriers or subtle or direct brainwashing.

Sources for the collage

• base image by Hive account@shaka

LMAC.gallery

Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore.

Contributed to the #LIL by @agmoore.

Contributed to the #LIL by @eve66.

Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.

Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.

Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.

Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.

Contributed to the #LIL by @seckorama.

The creation process

First, I created the background from the base image in Paint.Net with the GPL Kaleidoscope effect.
Then, I continued editing elements in Photoshop, which I put in layers to the collage.

Hope you have fun!

LIL Beneficiaries:

• 20% goes to Hive account@lmac
• 2% goes to Hive account@agmoore
• 2% goes to Hive account@eve66

Recent (this year's) collages: The Matrix, In a glass of water, Malice, The Sense, Negotiation, Patterns, Epic drama, Fiction, The Cage, Jubilee, Shift, Missiles, Diversity, Globalism, Enemy, Free Style: Hodl!

If you are interested in my previous work, here are the videos with sound for each year in the LMAC community:

LMAC2020 | LMAC2021 | LMAC2022 | LMAC2023

My contribution to LIL - LMAC Image Library - 804 images up to date.

And here's something else:
There has been a lot of development in Hive core, but documentation is outdated, and updates are needed. So I invite you to support and vote for Hive devportal updates proposal by Hive account@good-karma.

Support and vote for those exceptional witnesses:
@good-karma, @liotes, @fbslo and detlev.witness.