“Everyday Inspirations Vol 2“ by Felipe Adan Lerma. Free Five Days Only. Through Friday February 24, 2012.
Second volume in Adan’s photo-poems series of ebooks.
“a beginner’s view : the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”
Everyday Inspirations Vol 2, Photo-Poems
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Images and Words
these small volumes, combining words and images, are among my favorite
i get to express ideas of inspiration and gratitude, from pictures i myself have taken, of scenes i find around me, here and near-by in burlington vermont
sometimes the photos i find i take, are of the very ordinary in our lives, a flower or rock or shadow, something that’s there around me, either all year, or for long stretches of time
other moments, though of a place or scene that i can access any day, appears differently that day – snow or sun or simply an angle i normally don’t notice
these are all moments that mean something to me – in that moment
from that sensed moment, i search for, or allow, the words that fit, to come to me, so i many express them with that image
when it works really well, it has great power, no matter what the image, and no matter the number of words actually used
Digital Technique
as i often mention, i like to compose my picture as much as possible in the viewfinder of the camera
the boundaries of the frame of the picture are like the frames i made and used to frame posters and paintings and prints for many decades when i had both frame shops and worked in my home
beyond that, i try to keep or capture the essence of what i saw when i took the picture, on the digitized final image in this ebook
most of the time, not much more than some minor cropping, color saturation, or even simple dodge or burn swipes, is all i need
occasionally, some stamping, or layer opacity work is needed
exposure levels are fun to work with to find the original moment of visual inspiration
and with all the above, i’ll often use the fade tool to any percentage fade that fits capturing the original feeling of the shot
Creative Digital Work
to satisfy my own creative urge, closer to what i like to do in oil painting, i’ll be beginning a new series that takes an image i like, and just plain plays with it, seeing what i’ll see
i’ll be looking for, in the new very digitally adjusted image, the same felt response i look to feel when i initially compose a picture in the frame of my camera’s viewfinder
but this time, from the re-created enhanced image itself, rather than the originating scene in nature
thus, from this new image, more detached from the original actual scene than those in my Everyday Inspirational series, i search to find the same verbal inspiration to fit the image, but from this more abstracted autonomous image, this new collection of colors and forms, of lines and movements
it should be as interesting to do, and see the results 
Vol 3 of Everyday Inspirations, Photo-Poems
to have my various series more aligned with the time they represent, my photo-poem series, “Everyday Inspirations” needs to release closer to the beginning of the month
vol 3 of the series then, will be released as soon as it is ready, after the five-day free period for vol 2 is over
for those folk who especially enjoy having both the written and visual together, i hope this will provide for a nice consecutive offering
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Yoga
yoga is about union, and much has been written about what kind of union, what degree of union, how durational a union, almost anything one can think of and feel something about
that’s pretty understandable, as the exploration by anyone of what the union of the universal with the individual might mean, is, well, apparently infinite -
at least for us supposedly combo-mortal-divine creatures
combining words and images is simply, for me, a merging of search-expression-avenues in the larger exploration
not so simply, is the often surprising results i find myself coming up with
the nice thing is, we all do this to some degree already -
and is something we can all do, and enjoy…
namaste – con dios – god be with you
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“And The Idea Is…” : Original inspirational poetry, linked in response to dVersepoets.com site’s prompt post, “OpenLinkNight ~ Week 32.”
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Intro
A stand alone non-series short work, celebrating how we love in our different ages of living and being, “12 Stages of Loving” is the perfect small extra gift for Valentines Day.
The newest release in the “Month of Mornings” series, 
The first series, “A Month of Mornings” conveys the awareness of waking each day, to the repeating and new events in daily life, and celebrating that. A cup of coffee. Heat in winter. Getting achy or sore, fit or raring to get started, day-to-day, each day.
Then, initially also meant as an experiment, and day-to-day companion, Adan began seeing if he could find a gratitude, one each day, no matter how simple or basic. From this Adan’s second ebook series grew and became “Everyday Gratitude.”
About a month into the creation of these two series, Adan says it dawned on him that he could combine two of his creative loves, verse and imagery.
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