In 2009 I started a blog on blogger.com that complemented my main blog ‘my-yoga-blog’. I published only pictures of asanas there. The blogger page allowed to label the pictures and blog posts. So when I searched for urdhva dhanurasana i.e. all the pictures that I had published to that topic got listed. This allowed me to see the development of any asana over time. This was very motivating. All my pictures were a huge support. Nothing gave me more feed-back than my asana pictures.
So much has changed in the last decade. When I started this asana blog I had a point and shoot camera and no tripod. I used the self-timer that was built in the camera. That meant that within 20 sec I had to push the button, I had to run to my mat, quickly I had to get into the pose and then I had to wait for the click of my camera wich usually came very soon after being in the pose. Often it was too quickly. Then I had to repeat everything only faster. Twenty seconds can be very fast. In the first years I was happy that I could take pictures at all. Sometimes I went to a public place where I live. Many students relaxed on the steps in front of this museum. When I had the courage I asked a friendly looking person if she would be so kind to take a picture of me.
The best pictures are indeed those that were taken outside. The light was better than in my home, there was more space around me. Indoor I faced mainly two difficulties: The light situation and the rather tiny yoga room.
I kept updating this blog till 2018, that is more than a decade. Within this period I had published about 800 pictures. What to do with this blog? The pictures don’t have the standard anymore that we’re used today. I have also not the intention to keep publishing pictures there as I publish my blog posts and pictures on my own website.
It would have been sad to delete everything without keeping a memory. The picture on this blog showed my development. My asanas got often better, my pictures as well. I decided to make a book out of my blog. I found pixxelbooks online. This is unpaid advertising. (Do I have to mention this?) Quickly I learned that three volumes had to get produced. It was so easy.
This Saturday when I returned from grocery shopping the postman was in the elevator with many parcels. I could ask him if he had a parcel for me, too. He had one. I didn’t expect that it got delivered so fast and that it these three books are so heavy. When the postman handed me the parcel it almost fell on the floor.
I was so curious. Quickly I opened the parcel and found these three volumes in it. All the pictures are printed on high-gloss paper. The cover is attractive. I turned page after page and traveled back mentally to all these yoga sessions.
A couple of weeks ago I had already downloaded all the pictures. I have the pictures online and collected in these three volumes now.
The next final step will be to delete this blog.
Thank you for all the visitors of this blog. Nothing lasts forever.
Padmasana at sunset in 2009 was one of my first pictures that I had published on ‘my-asanas’ blog.