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My eBook Contemplative Photography Essays is more than the usual "see my book" piece of news. I am writing this because I think the best way for people to understand things is to... touch them. So I set to make an eBook that I am sharing with my readers, both in Portugal and Brasil, and also with English speaking readers, as the eBook covers the two languages.

The eBook is a look back through some of my past workshops, with pictures of people having fun discovering the joys of photography through my recipe of "slow down and let things happen". I think that's a good way to show what I am talking about. I also used some images from the places I usually take people too in my tours. From the Atlantic Coast of Portugal to the scenery of Tapada de Mafra, the double page landscape that seems almost as a Middle Earth piece of land, the pictures in the eBook work both as a tempting tool for people to come and participate in my adventures, but also to show what can be done, easily, with the Books module in Adobe PHotoshop Lightroom 4.

Right, the program is still in beta, and some bugs will make you have to work harder, but even with that I think that the pages here just show what we can do, from now on, with this Adobe software. And we're just on the starting point to get Lightroom 4 ready for a middle of Spring launch. So, look at the pages, remember that I am barely touching the surface of options, and go from there to imagine what you can do with your pictures. Give it a try. The beta is open to anyone that wants to explore LR. And maybe suggest Adobe some more things to do before the program is launched.

To download my eBook Contemplative Photography Essays use this link. At the end of the page you'll land at you'll find a link to the eBook.

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