Hi Lexee!
God bless you on your desire to adore Him.
It certainly is perfectly ok. You might want to check out this page
monksofadoration.org/webadore.html for some insight into that particular topic.
I thought this point would be especially comforting to you:
St. Aloysius Gonzaga drew a monstrance on the wall of his room in the direction of the nearest tabernacle so that he could direct his prayers to Jesus present there.
In any event, you are probably aware that administration of the Sacraments require our proximate presence: therefore confessions, confirmations, etc over the phone are not valid sacraments.
But since you are not talking about receiving a sacrament (and hence are not talking about receiving sacramental graces per se), we don’t have to worry about proximity.
Adoration of Our Lord’s presence is ok,
anywhere and anytime. Since prayer is the lifting one’s mind and heart to God, you certainly are praying!
As far as whether it carries the “same weight” as being in the proximate presence of Christ in the sacrament. . .well no, in the sense that he is not sacramentally present in the image. But you are adoring Him. I would say it is very close to the practice of “Spiritual Communion” or the practice of the homebound viewing a televised Sacrfrice of the Mass.
What do you think Lexee?
VC