A Bear Playing With Water: Freestyle Collage for LMAC

agmoore in #hive-174695 • last year

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I can feel the excitement in the air--LMAC Contest is returning very soon. Keep tuned for @shaka's announcement. This will probably be my last freestyle before the contest resumes. I had a bit of fun with this. The template came from a picture my nephew sent me.

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The house is the very same one where I spent my earliest years. I lived there from 1947-1954. The house was very different back then. There certainly were no solar panels. We heated the house with a wood burning stove and used a pump to collect water from a well outside. We lived in the left side of the house and my landlord lived on the right. They packed up in winter and left their half empty.

Here is a picture of my dear cousin posing with one of my brothers in front of the house. You can see our clothes were hand-me-downs.

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There were some hard times in that house, and yet nostalgia does overtake me as I remember it.

Here is another picture of that same brother riding what looks like a tricycle in front of the house.

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My two oldest brothers (I have three) started school in a one room schoolhouse in the local village for their first years of attendance. When I entered the first grade, we went out of district to a larger school. The bus stop was a mile away and we would walk that distance if we didn't have a ride.

Our clothes were considerably nicer when we attended school. My Uncle Jimmy owned a dry cleaning store and he'd give us the abandoned clothes. Also, my mother sewed and would make us specialty items. We were actually among the best-dressed kids in school. That sort of dichotomy between home and school helped to make me a complicated person, I think :).

Here is a picture of me (pointing), my older sister, and one of my brothers. This was taken a few years after the pictures shown earlier in the blog. We were at my Uncle John and Aunt Anna's house in this photo. My aunt gave us those clothes. She made the dresses for us specially.

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My Collage

In all the years I lived in the rural area I never saw a bear. Still I thought it would be fun to imagine a bear visiting the property and playing with water in a well.

The dog of course takes umbrage at this intrusion and snarls from a safe distance. The cat is appropriately curious, but remote. As for the people in the house--they peer from windows and hope the bear will go away.

I thank my LMAC colleagues for the wonderful pictures they have contributed to LIL, our image gallery. These pictures brought my collage to life. Thank you.

LIL Images:

Water in the well
@onyechi
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/167
Cat on the roof
@yaziris
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/7633
Beehive gnome porch decoration
@redheadpei
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/7345
Dog snarling
@quantumg
https://lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/13326
Ball
@edgarafernandezp
https://lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/11214

I thank also contributors from Pixabay:

Face in the window
Eric_Lucatero
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/retrato-gente-adulto-hombre-rostro-3353699/
Child's face in window
Bessi
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/ni%C3%B1a-preocupado-retrato-rostro-738306/

Process
After cropping the picture, I ran it through a Lunapic filter to give the scene a slightly aged look. First I had to put the water in the well, then clean up the bear and well.

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I added the ball, porch decoration, cat, dog and faces in the windows to set the scene.
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Then I made the frames that showed the bear playing in the well water.

This was fun, as always.

LMAC and LIL

You can see that LIL, the LMAC Image Library, was an essential part of my collage-creating process. Anyone on Hive can contribute to the library and everyone can borrow from it. Learn about the procedure here.

We've all rested up over the summer and recharged our creative batteries. Get ready for a fall return. I'm eagerly anticipating the new prompt and the great collages that will be offered by community members.

Till then...peace and health.

#letsmakeacollage #art #family #lifestyle #nostalgia #proofofbrain #creativecoin #hive

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yaziris last year

Lovely to see these nostalgic images, and to have a time traveling glimpse into those memories.

Peace and health to you my dear friend! 💚

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agmoore last year

So nice to see you here, my friend @yaziris. Thank you! ♥️🌈🌼

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agmoore last year

Oh my heavens, @yaziris! I see that I left your name off the beneficiary list!! I know you don't care but I can't believe I lose track of such things. I will rectify that when the post pays out. Thanks for not noticing 🌼

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litguru last year

Wonderful photographs, and everyone looks so sharp!

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agmoore last year

everyone looks so sharp!

Well, at least in the last picture 😂

Thanks a lot for the great comment.

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djbravo last year

When the pictures are converted to black and white, their beauty increases as we see that these places are very beautiful and one gets a lot of peace after seeing the natural scenery. If we want to live our lives well, we all need to visit such beautiful places to spend our time.

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rafzat last year

I think putting a picture in black and white form has a way of getting beautified
The pictures are really nice
Kudos!

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itwithsm last year

It's lovely to see that bear playing on the right side of your photo :P Wonderful collage.

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agmoore last year

Thank you very much. I appreciate that kind comment🌼

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mballesteros last year

The house where you grew up with your siblings is impossible to forget. The house where I grew up still appears in my dreams, even though I have lived in so many places.
I imagine that those photos are a treasure for you.❤️
A hug and happy day my friend!

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agmoore last year

where I grew up still appears in my dreams

Yes, and all of us as though it was yesterday.

Thanks for the lovely comment, @mballesteros 🌼💐

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redheadpei last year

You and your siblings are nicely dressed, A.G. And your Aunt’s house looks lovely.

I like the lattice work around the door of your house in the first photograph.

Your lovely collage has the Autumn feel with the red leaves on the tree. The red around the door brings it together. Love the animation of the bear.

Thanks for including my lil image… bears love honey, 😃

We are waiting to see what direction Hurricane Lee will take by next weekend..hopefully not coming at us. 💨

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agmoore last year

That house was so old. I can't believe people are still living in it. It had to be at least from the mid 1800s. There used to be giant pine trees in the front and the landlord (husband) would give me a ride in his wheelbarrow from the front walk to the driveway. The high point of any day🌼

Thanks for your lovely comment. I have been watching that storm and it is threatening Maine and the Canada coast. What's up with the storms attacking Canada???? I hope it stays out to sea. You guys have had enough natural disaster up there in the last year or so.

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deirdyweirdy last year

Oh, those halcyon days of our youth, of hand-me-downs and miles on Shank's mare. I wouldn't swap them for the trials of growing up today. So your mother sewed, your aunt too and a little more skilfully than my own by the look of it. And Uncle Jimmy with the dry cleaners. Some of the best-dressed kids in school indeed.
A great read and a fun collage...with all the usual humorous little touches that make them peculiarly yours.

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agmoore last year

It was a peculiar situation. My father was a lawyer (dichotomy, indeed). His father, one of the most prominent landowners in the area. We lived as no one else did in our 'social set' 😂 Except we didn't have a social set. Everything was a secret. We pretended always that home was a normal, middle class environment. It was impressed upon us to hide the truth--the way we lived, my father's absence. Didn't matter that the shame was my father's. We were responsible for guarding the secrets.

Once a child approached my sister on the school playground and challenged her by saying my father didn't live home. My sister promptly pummeled the child and no one ever spoke that truth again, not to my sister anyway😆

My mother did sew. If there was a special school event, she'd pull out a suitcase with scraps of cloth and bolts of thread that she'd saved from her days working in the NYC Garment District. Somehow she'd make a lovely dress, as good as or better than anything anyone else had.

I'm not sure I would want those halcyon days back. 😁 They came to an end one day when my mother told us to pack a few cases and we fled. My father tracked us to the train station by couldn't do anything because it was a public place. We got away and never looked back. My aunt and uncle helped us to start a new life.

All of the above explains why, when I first saw your handle, @deirdyweirdy, I related to it. Different stories but still... childhoods a bit out of the ordinary 😇

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deirdyweirdy last year

Goodness! Small wonder we get each other. Everything was a secret! 'Always conceal and never reveal the secrets of the brotherhood' my father would warn us repeatedly. Not that we'd've told anyone.
My mother took a thousand beatings and we ran many times but with nowhere to go but a refuge who'd take us for a few nights, we always returned. She was a lifelong alcoholic like her mother before her. My father was a heavy drinker but could give it up at the drop of a hat.

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agmoore last year

'Always conceal and never reveal the secrets of the brotherhood'

I think that's why we write about it today. The freedom of not hiding, of being open--it's a luxury

I'm sorry you had nowhere to run. My mother's family always said the door was open. In her case the prison warden was the Catholic Church. She asked a monsignor once on one of our Brooklyn trips if she could leave her husband. She explained to the cleric how we lived, what her situation was. He told her she couldn't break her vows but had to stay. Fortunately, in time she decided to take the step, but she never removed the wedding ring, and she never considered entering into another relationship.

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kemmyb last year

You take us down memory lane with you and we feel the nostalgia as well. These pictures are lovely! After all these years, the house is still standing. That's good.

Your collage turned out great. I love colour you used and that moving bear beside the well is cool (in pictures only). I'll probably run back inside the house if I saw a real bear in front of my house. 😄 !LUV

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agmoore last year

that moving bear beside the well is cool (in pictures only)

I think I would freeze if a saw a bear in real life.😄

Thanks for reading and for the great comment, dear @kemmyb

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