It has been my dream to visit Australia for some time now. Mostly to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef. I would love to experience the diversity of fish and sea creatures that the coast has to offer. It also has unique wildlife such as kangaroos and Koala Bears. These are the thoughts that went through my head when I came across the assignment A Place I’ve Never Been.

For my collage I included some key elements to Australia. For some reason orange is the color that always comes to my mind with Australia. Something about the sands and the sunset really screams orange to me. I used that as the background color along with an outline of the actual continent. The next element was the Great Barrier reef. It is one of the seven wonders in the world and in the top 5 places I want to visit. I also included the Sydney Opera House because of it being an iconic symbol and architecture for Australia. The last key element was a Kangaroo. Many Kangaroo species are endemic to Australia (meaning they are only found on that continent) and have also become a symbol.

To create this collage I resorted to google images. I knew what I was looking for and carefully chose each picture. I then used Pixlr to crop pictures and place them together. I had first crop the smaller pictures and copy them onto a layer that was the outline of the continent. I then re-positioned each in a way I thought fit. I think used my snipping tool to take a picture of the image so I could add text. I uploaded the image to Microsoft Powerpoint and added a text box. I included the name of the continent as well as the slogan by which it is known for. The typography was quite tricky. I wanted something bold, but nothing seemed to fit. I just kept trying different ones until I came across “Matisse”. It fit the somewhat tribal theme of Australia and really brought the image together.

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