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December 03, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Costa Rica Sunset Panorama” : circa 2017
I almost skipped even posting about it, but at 4x the views of the nearest most viewed of my images, I needed to drag myself out of my whatever-it-is recent posting stagnation, lol!
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November 13, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Cypress Creek Mid Afternoon Mid October” : Circa 2019
Very unusual to have so many photos from my collection of images at Fine Art America show up among my 12 most viewed images there at FAA, and for so many showing up for the 1st time….
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July 20, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
Time to wrap up our short but wonderful stay with the 8 year old and other grandparents ♥️ Soon there’ll be another sunrise.
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July 19, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
I’d forgotten the feel of an immense sky above us – that’s the other grandpa in pic ❤️ It was one of the things I took for granted in Galveston, was amazed about in Costa Rica, and very much surprised about along Lake Champlain in Vermont 😊 Big skies!
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July 18, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
So early in the morning, 1st twilight had barely begun, but the lights from homes and boats dotted the night and gave me this lovely unintentionally watercolor-ish night shot from my iPhone 😊
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July 17, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
An aquarium visit proved interesting, fun and educational 😊 Probably the most important being that all creatures, no matter their color, size, or type of life..need connection – love, most of us would say ♥️
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July 16, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
These are short posts with an image or two depending on time computer posting time available. Storyline is grandparents taking the youngest grandchildren to visit other grandparents 💕
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July 15, 2021 – 1st Trip in Over 3 Years
These are short posts with an image or two depending on time computer posting time available. Storyline is grandparents taking the youngest grandchildren to visit other grandparents 💕
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Bastille Day 2020! 🇫🇷 With Memories of Paris 2012
Sheila and I eventually took the same bus back we’d taken to the Bastille monument, back to our tiny upper floor loft in a nice apartment building, rented through an early European version of what Airbnb later came into being as.
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Villa Ladera – Private Hillside Escape * Pura Vida in Costa Rica! ❤️
“…absolutely gorgeous, with 3 bedrooms- all with their own huge bathroom and shower! The sparkling pool and the seating area is just perfect for grilling and hanging out. And the location??!! ITS a 1 MINUTE WALK TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACH AND DOZENS OF WONDERFUL RESTAURANTS!”
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Dec 23, 24 & 25, 2019 – Art & Food Into Christmas 💕 😊
My Yesterday in Pictures – Dec 23, 24 & 25 2019 😊 Art & Food into Christmas Day ❤️
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My Yesterday in Pictures for, Dec 19 & 20, 2019 – SilverSneakers Yoga, Blue Hole Park Wimberley Texas, Golden Absorbent Ground Acrylic 💕
My Yesterday in Pictures – Dec 19 & 20, 2019 😊 SilverSneakers Yoga, Blue Hole Regional Park Wimberley Texas, Golden Absorbent Ground
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Spectacular Angel Falls, Venezuela by Image Earth Travel (Nilla Palmer)
“ Much prefer booking with a local company so that the money stays in the country and hopefully goes to locals. Typically, indigenous guides are used for Angel Falls as their knowledge of the riverways is far more superior….”
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My Most Recently Uploaded Images Onto Fine Art America, 11.05.19 😊
My two most recent uploaded to Fine Art America are — Mount Mansfield Twilight Sunrise Panorama & Blue Hole Reflections Wimberley Texas Vintage.
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Candid Photography Along My Travels – via Travelways
It’s a real treat to reblog Tatiana’s Travelways post of candid photography from her many travels. She even has an artists’ travel image group she curates on Fine Art America, plus travel features on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook!
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Recently Updated Blog Posts on My Site 10.28.19 😊
“As I progress through updating my posts since 2011, I’ll post periodic updates here of which ones….” 😊 – Texas Hill Country thriller book cover; Musee d’Orsay giant clock poster .
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New Vermont Panoramic Header Image On My Amazon Affiliate Shopping Page! Update 10.26.19
Just a quick update to my Affiliate Shopping page on Amazon — I’ve just updated it’s look via adding one of my favorite most recent Vermont images from a sunrise series I posted end of last year – Mount Mansfield in early twilight!
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images # 4 – Rolling Hill Country, Photography circa 2004
“Starting with my oldest work I’d uploaded onto FAA, I‘ll be progressing through each image. Some images, like my 1st t presented this way, Austin at Night, have variations. Sometimes a poster version or a vertical, a crop or macro, or even a digital or painting version.“
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Cypress Creek Wimberley Texas, Mid Day Mid October
A quick post to showcase 3 of the images I really liked on our recent 1/2 day outing to the near Hill Country of Texas from Austin w/our 6 yr old grandson 💕
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The “Real” Story of our Day Trip to Wimberley Texas 😂
The “Real” Story of our Day Trip to Wimberley Texas – Nope. It wasn’t the quaint village, or improved weather, or reflections of trees and foliage in Cypress Creek – it was Grandma & Max, enjoying their yogurt ice creams at The Wooden Spoon!“ 😊
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Recently Updated Blog Posts on My Site 101219 😊
“As I progress through updating my posts since 2011, I’ll post periodic updates here of which ones….” 😊
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Adan’s Fine Art America Images – Autumn Bicycling #2 – Photography circa 2012
“Starting with my oldest work I’d uploaded onto FAA, I‘ll be progressing through each image. Some images, like my 1st t presented this way, Austin at Night, have variations. Sometimes a poster version or a vertical, a crop or macro, or even a digital or painting version.“
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Paris Coffee Cup Sold! @FineArtAmerica – “Side Street to Saint Sulpice” 😊
“Paris is amazing everywhere of course, but our first few weeks (5 1/2 weeks total) we stuck to searching the smaller streets near our tiny apt. We knew we’d spend few hours there anyway, lol! And it still had a good shower and a two-burner stove to cook on – we made good use of…
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Blog Post Update Alert 😊 – Biking Across Lake Champlain Vermont – Four Years in the Making Circa 2015 🚴♀️
“Crossing – finally crossing – Lake Champlain on a bicycle was a major desired milestone of mine that’s persisted since I’d first learned it existed, back in the summer of 2011.”
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Adan’s eBay Art – New Poster Available : Eiffel Tower Bus Tour Poster
“Flowers are a God send to everyone, but especially it seems, artists and photographers!”
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My Two Most Viewed Posts on My Site August 2019 – Vermont & Costa Rica! 😊
(1) Thompson Park Bridge Stowe Vermont (2) The Magic of Costa Rica – Playtime 😊
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1st Posters For Sale 😊 Pricing, Sizes, Material, Shipping, Customizing
“I am currently using two variations of very heavy stock paper…One is a linen textured surface that seems to work best with light colored images giving them an almost watercolor feel. The other is an ultra high end gloss that’s exceptional with deep colors.”
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Showing & Playing My Poster Poker Hand
“It’s been awhile since I had the desire to go through the process and expense of choosing and creating a catalog of on-hand prints I’d like to sell.”
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Photography Surprises – Tour Bus Night Images in Paris 🇫🇷 Make Good Posters
“I remember my wife and I could move easily and quickly from side to side inside the bus picking our window, then to the front with the giant viewing windows, and back again to catch another icon shrinking in the rear window. Neither the bus driver nor the few other tourists aboard seem to mind…
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If I’m Gonna Make Posters (among other categories of prints)…What Do You Think of These?
“I will say, having a body of photo images to go with my original art today, is a significant difference from those days when I cut my own glass, beveled my own mats, and chose my own backing – but didn’t have enough visual work, or means to print it – to do what I…
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Playtime at the Edge of the World – A PhotoPoem from Adan 😊
“It was easy standing by the edge of low lapping water head high above the quiet froth of foam nibbling at my toes – “
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The Magic of Costa Rica – Playtime 😊
From a too short a stay with my wife in Costa Rica early 2017, and a small but growing selection of photos from that trip to my site on Fine Art America (FAA), three are already among my top 14 most viewed images 😊
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Thompson Park Bridge Stowe Vermont – Original Photography, 1st Published August 17, 2016
I believe I’ve worked my blog to the point where I can start (re)presenting older material I really like, cleanly, and simply link to the years’ earlier related posts for context and depth.
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Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
“…the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the first time in months in good light — all got me scooping paint from a tube with a thin palette knife and reworking, ‘Peace Among the Mist.;”
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I Wanna Win! 😊 – Fine Art America’s July 2019 Billboard Contest 💥
Together, these three images – a BW photograph from Paris, an oil painting of Vermont, and a color photo of Austin – represent both the visual mediums I prefer to create, and, the three places I’ve lived or stayed in extended time that mean most to me.
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Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Around Notre Dame – Day 3, via Felipe Adan Lerma
My wife Sheila and I, even back in the autumn of 2012, were of course aware of then learned much more of the incredible history of Paris and it’s iconic areas inside the old city walls. We learned that a previous church had occupied the same spot on the island on the Seine as Notre…
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Notre Dame Paris – In Gratitude for Being There and Surviving Through So Much
From my cherished Paris collection of images from my wife and mine’s stay late 2012 – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/felipeadan-lerma.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=642805&page=1 . As always, from its history of progressing human freedom, to surviving World Wars and revolutions, to its sourcing of such a stunning amount of artistic beauty and creativity, Paris endures to inspire and encourage us. Adan Twitter…
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Do You Have a Favorite Word Among Your Image Titles? Apparently I do! (smiles) – “Light”
My newest Fine Art America photography and art collection – “Light” I was recently debating the title for a new nearly finished oil painting – I pretty sure I’ve settled on “Woman in Moonlight” – when I suddenly wondered how much of my photography and art I’ve titled with “Light” in the title. The answer…
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Thank You Repeat Buyer in Bradford Vermont (Nancy Griswold)! – Mountain Road Cabin And Sunrise, Stowe Vermont
Normally most artists selling their art work, prints, and gift items don’t know who’s bought something of theirs at Fine Art America, but this particular buyer, artist Nancy Griswold, contacted me and let me know.
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About the Images in My Books, Part 2 – Narrative / Illustrative Photography and Art
From early on I included my own images in small books of poetry, creating verses to illustrate what I saw and felt in the scenes, often of nature but relating to people. Also relatively early, I matched images to my travel memoirs. One small book, “Love’s Travels – Vermont, Paris, Austin”, combines my images with…
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About the Images in My Books, Part 1 – Book Covers
Jan 06, 2019 Please click links on cover images for links to the books on Amazon (universal links); & links on right-side images for their Fine Art America pages (gifts & prints). And for more of my before-and-after images-to-covers, please visit my collection of samples at Fine Art America – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/felipeadan-lerma.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=712150 . It started as…
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Mount Mansfield September Sunrise Five
Happy New Year Everyone! This is the 5th image in my Mount Mansfield September Sunrise photo shoot one morning, September, 2018. Dec 31, 2018 It is the first of the series with the sun actually showing. The prior images were twilights, from astronomical twilight to nautical to civil, each a progressive category of light appearing…
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Mount Mansfield September Sunrise Four
“ This is the moment before the sun shows itself. More light reflects orange on the fog. Foreground fields appear.”
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Mount Mansfield, My Favorite Sunrise Photo Shoot Series of 2018 – Image Three
Dec 28, 2018 Though only a few minutes have passed from my previous pic (Image Two, link at bottom of this post), already there’s small changes. As I wrote in my image description on my image site at Fine Art America – “only a few minutes more have passed, but already patches of fog in…
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Mount Mansfield, My Favorite Sunrise Photo Shoot Series of 2018 – Image Two
Dec 27, 2018 Second in my early September Mount Mansfield sunrise images from the same morning and location, I can clearly see the changes beginning to occur! Though the upper sky is slightly darker and the land below still remains in darkness, the light between those two layers is brighter. This, I began to learn…
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Paris – Variations of the Endurance of Beauty and Art In Our Lives
Dec 06, 2018 I’ve found that some moments I’ve caught with my camera will often begin telling me, like a model turning and showing how light highlights its beauty – “Look at me! I am beautiful, I am enticing, I endure! What can you do that will enhance the light!” Paris, I feel, like the…
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“Galveston in the 21st Century, in Three Parts” – original poetry, art, photography
my first poem of the year, this fifth month, of our last year in galveston [ updated 08.11.19 ]