Author: LudwigKeck

Change Happens

It started here, in this out-of-the way, hard-to-get-to corner of the internet. A bit more than a year ago my curiosity led me to sign up for Blogging 101 at the WordPress Blogging University. You can see the badge and link in the sidebar at the right. That in turn led me to participate in…… Continue reading Change Happens

First Impression

The First Impression of a Photograph There is that saying that “you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression” and we are all aware of the importance of making a good first impression. In social encounters our future relationships are shaped by those first impressions. In our world, where everything and everybody…… Continue reading First Impression

Photo Walk

A Photo Walk in Midtown Atlanta Saturday, August 27, 2016, presented a rare treat. I had a chance to meet a blogging friend, Norm Frampton. We had only exchanged online messages and emails before. This was a first time in-person meeting. A short photo walk and dinner with Norm and a local friend, David, was…… Continue reading Photo Walk

Celebrating “Hover Fly”

Facebook reminded me that is was just two years ago when “Hover Fly”, my cafe art image of a little eponymous creature on a yellow flower, was an honored participant in an exhibit at the Rectory in Norcross, Georgia. Here some views from that cherished event. After the exhibition “Hover Fly” was on display at…… Continue reading Celebrating “Hover Fly”

Cafe Art and Photopainting

As far back as I can remember I have always been fond of dabbling, drawing, painting, and doodling. Photography has also been my hobby. When the technology became available to combine both, of course, I could not resist. What resulted from my early efforts I could hardly call art. It didn’t seem that any of…… Continue reading Cafe Art and Photopainting

Growing my Audience

Hardly a day goes by without at least one message in a spam folder that offers sure-fire ways of increasing my readership. Some want to sell me Twitter followers, others offer Facebook friends. It isn’t just those no-name fly-by-nights, but the biggies do it too. Witness Facebook pushing its own advertising. Why for just $5…… Continue reading Growing my Audience

My past two months

If you scroll down to see the prior post you get an idea of why I have been totally quiet her for so long. I helped get the “Peach Blossom Artists” onto the Internet. The “Peach Blossom Artisan Market”. Oh, you have to visit the site I built: Peach Blossom Artists. More to come as…… Continue reading My past two months

A day for gotchas

There are days like this It started like any other day. I checked my emails, followed up on a couple, deleted advertising and then came across an email from Quora. Somebody was asking “Why should we use Windows Live Writer”. I had just been checking out some features in the new Open Live Writer so…… Continue reading A day for gotchas

Award: Featured Member

Featured member of the ALL Fine Artwork group of Fine Art America It is a great privilege to report that I have been picked for this honor. My participation in groups at FAA is not very extensive, I participate in just a dozen groups besides the administrators group and Cafe Art, the group I started…… Continue reading Award: Featured Member

Another New Home

Monday Window - logo image

… for Monday Window and a new logo After moving the “home” of Monday Window over to Two Cameras – Two Views I discovered that the blog domain “mondaywindow” was available at WordPress.com. Of course I claimed it. Now Monday Window has it own home at MondayWindow.wordpress.com. Along with the new home there is also…… Continue reading Another New Home

Buckhead

With my weekly posts now running over on Two Cameras – Two Views I don’t have much to offer here this week. Of course, there is always a preview of the next Monday Window topic. For February 15 it will be windows in Buckhead, you can see them on the Gallery page. Go take a…… Continue reading Buckhead

Closing Doors and Windows

Nearing

The fun projects, Monday Window and Thursday Doors, have been moved to Two Cameras – Two Views. This blog, on a self-hosted site, does not do well on WordPress Reader. Just three friends have succeeded in following this blog. They will not be forgotten. There will always be some ramblings here with links and information…… Continue reading Closing Doors and Windows

Thursday Doors – 3

1465 Portmarnock Drive

Elegant Home Today we visit an elegant home. The front door is carefully crafted with beveled glass and sculpted designs. As a special treat we get to see what the door looks like from the inside. Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos…… Continue reading Thursday Doors – 3

Monday Window – 2

Monday Window – Looking Up Sometimes when you look up at windows they seem to take on a different character. They seem to be looking out, far above, unconcerned with the goings-on below them. Then again, sometimes you can see in and just barely imagine what is happening there. .:. © 2016 Ludwig Keck

Thursday Doors – 2

Door

A Simple Door For this Thursday Doors post my contribution is a simple door. Just about as simple as one can get. A simple glass double door. No adornments, just stark, rectangular panels. Even the door “handles” are simple rectangular metal bars. But surrounding the door are impressive, large windows reaching up to form a…… Continue reading Thursday Doors – 2

My Liebster Award

My blog Café Ludwig has been nominated for the Liebster Award by Irmgard Rahn, BOOKS OF REALITY. Irmgard was a fellow participant in Blogging 101. Since this blog was my “vehicle” for that course, I consider it appropriate that I involve it in the award process by fulfilling two of the requirements of the award…… Continue reading My Liebster Award

Monday Window – 1

Window on River Street So this is number one in my new series “Monday Window”. I took the advise of a respected sage “never start at the beginning”. This then is a window along River Street in Savannah, Georgia. The two photos here at first glance seem to show different windows. Yet it is one…… Continue reading Monday Window – 1

Doors Open

Doors in Sims Park

Thursday Doors: Coming In Over in Blogging 101 the Day Thirteen task encourages to “Try a Blogging Event”. I looked through the list and and noticed that “Thursday Doors” by Norman Frampton was on the list. I had come across his Norm 2.o site and found the idea of a weekly blog featuring doors intriguing.…… Continue reading Doors Open

If at first you don’t succeed …

… take up something else! … Besides there was the note “come by at two o’clock”. We had been waiting for the opening of Hog & Ale Smokehouse for over four months. Turning to good food has always been a great “plan B” strategy. Mmmm, their “piglets” are awesome! Now what were we talking about.…… Continue reading If at first you don’t succeed …

Searchers, Followers, and Friends

For Day Ten the Blogging 101 assignment is “Build a Better Blogroll”. This is the third day with emphasis on the social aspects of blogging. Building your community is certainly essential to blogging. For me it brings up some interesting problems. There are two sides to WordPress. There is WordPress.COM with free blogs for individual…… Continue reading Searchers, Followers, and Friends

Background

A little bit of Background Showing the background of a blog is a little bit like showing underwear, you want as little as possible seen. When it does show you want it to be pleasing and a nice complement to your personality. Well, for a blog maybe showing just a smidgen more is desirable. I have worked…… Continue reading Background

Headers

A bunch of headers Here is a collection of my headers. You can see that my preference is for wide but narrow “mastheads” like old-fashioned newspapers. I want visitors to see more than just the static id imagery. That seems to be against the current trend, but I want visitors to see content. Two of…… Continue reading Headers

Hello Reader

Who are the readers of this blog? The assignment for today in the Blogging 101 course is this: Publish a post you’d like your ideal audience member to read, and include a new-to-you element in it. Ideal audience member? I cannot define an ideal reader any more than I could define a perfect friend. In friendship…… Continue reading Hello Reader

A little more of “why?”

Why would a long-time blogger join Blogging 101? “There is always more to learn.” — “Learning is fun.” — “Learning is living!” Then there is the Chinese proverb: “Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” Persuasive truisms these are; as Yodda would have said. “Anybody can learn, even little kids do it all…… Continue reading A little more of “why?”

Day 2 -It gets hard already

Blogging 101 – Day Two: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline One of my frequent laments is “why does everything turn into a learning experience?!” Now I did enter the Blogging 101 course with eyes wide open. I love to learn, have been doing it for over eighty years! I hope to be doing it for…… Continue reading Day 2 -It gets hard already