Creative Gratitudes ArtPhoto-Poems Vol 1

Creative Gratitudes ArtPhoto-Poems Vol 1 Copyright © 2012 by Felipe Adan Lerma Cover & Book Design by Felipe Adan Lerma Photography by Sheila &Adan Lerma All rights reserved. First Digital Printing: March 2012 Smashwords Edition This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Forward Update 040112 Vol 1 of “Creative Gratitudes” is also a sort of sampler of future volumes of this series. While I used a variety of effects from Photoshop in this edition, it is planned that future editions will tend to focus on one or two styles of affect per volume. Impressionistic renderings will mark the style of Vol 2, while embossing in various manners, is planned for use in Vol 2. If you have a favorite effect, please let me know at yoga dot adan at gmail dot com. Also, if you’ve enjoyed this work, please tell your friends, and consider leaving a review on any outlet’s listings, or clicking the “like” button such on Amazon. Thank you much, Adan * Please note, the Forward has been moved to the back of this book to allow more space for sampling. Sincerely, Adan Lerma March 29, 2012 * “Creative Gratitudes” as a series, is unique among my various works. Most of my other series, “A Month of Mornings,” “Everyday Gratitudes,” and “Everyday Inspirations” are specifically focussed on what we encounter in the every day. Even the images are of the “every day.” Typically, that means events and images and verse that are not necessarily dramatic, or overly exciting. Some might even say boring. But they are of the every day. What it takes and means for most of us to live from yesterday through today to tomorrow. And many times, dramatic things do happen, but more so inside. When we contemplate and allow the mystery of even being alive to speak to us. This series, “Creative Gratitudes,” allows me some leeway into exploration. Taking an image from the set from which I chose an image for one of my every day photopoem books, one that appeals to me, I literally “play” with it. I experiment with filters, adjustments, anything at all that seems to propel the image to the point where it inspires me to write a poem for it. Plus, it’s fun for me to do. ;-) And like the image work I present in “Photography Plus, a Beginners View,” these images and creative work are from a myself as a layman, not a professional. Which means, these are creative projects that most anyone can do and feel good about. I hope you enjoy these as well, and consider leaving a review and telling your friends. Thanks so much, Sincerely, adan march 26, 2012 index One i am grateful for the treasures buried safely in my depths ... - tailieumienphi.vn