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The Numbers Game – 260209

Fort Pulaski

Looking for the number 233 in my archives Today I looked for 233 in response to the challenge by Judy Dykstra-Brown – The Numbers Game 111. Once again the search yielded a number of images some of which I am sharing here. Two of the images are not my work – and thus I wish to offer a…… Continue reading The Numbers Game – 260209

Blooming

Flowering at our place

… blooming at our place The Cosmic Photo Challenge asked, “What’s flowering where you are?” A quick look around found these: Flowering at our place One daffodil is still hanging on. To continue the bright yellow: Our white violets are beginning to shine. Flowering at our place But spring at our house in Georgia means…… Continue reading Blooming

In other places …

Visit my other sites to see these sights … Two Cameras – Two Views Gallery Ludwig

Green Gem

Green Gem

My kaleidoscopic art is an on-again off-again activity. Now, as summer of 2023 gets underway, I seem to spend a little more time with my “kaleidoodles”. Some are along the classic lines and quite abstract, others delight with flower manipulations. They are spread out all over my sites. Maybe when the “pile” is large enough…… Continue reading Green Gem

Finishing the Move

It has been quite some time since the move of this site to a new hosting provider got underway. Many things have gone wrong, there were many delays. It is getting close to when it is time to say enough – it’s done. One if the objectives was to get better performance. That has been…… Continue reading Finishing the Move

“My Street Photography”

It has now been more than five months since I announced “My Street Photography” project here. At six o’clock in the morning each day since then a new image has been posting over at Ludwig.Gallery. The project is approaching its finish. In fact, all the photos have been uploaded and just a few remain to…… Continue reading “My Street Photography”

A pleasant thank-you

There is nothing better than an unexpected “thank-you” It was in the late 1950s, I was still taking a couple courses to finish up my engineering degree and had taken a job with a small company. For lunch the company president, most of the sales staff and the engineering department, usually about six or eight…… Continue reading A pleasant thank-you

Street Photography

… My Way It was about a year ago that the 2021 program calendar for the Peachtree Corners Phtography Club was firmed up. There were several presentations assigned to me. Little did I know at the time that the year would shape up with many troubles and difficulties, an annus horribilis. A couple of the…… Continue reading Street Photography

Photo to Cafe Art

One journey from camera to cafe art As my friends here know, I love creating “cafe art” from photos. It occurred to me that the journey of an image from the camera to my gallery site may make an interesting story. Sometimes I have nothing special in mind and just start playing around. The results…… Continue reading Photo to Cafe Art

Ramble – June 2019

The dictionary says: ramble – noun – a leisurely excursion for pleasure. synonyms: walk · hike · trek · wander · stroll · saunter · amble · roam · traipse · jaunt Photo by James Stone, Tytan Pictures This, then, should be a pleasurable stroll through some interesting topics. It didn’t work out that way…… Continue reading Ramble – June 2019

Once Upon a Time

A long, long, time ago there was a tool for preparing blog posts called “Windows Live Writer”. It had some fabulous features. You could do something like this: Demo-1 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Or this: Demo-1 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Alas, those days are long forgotten. No longer can these things be done.…… Continue reading Once Upon a Time

An Era Ends

Here, at the end of 2018, we are “blessed” with a revolutionary change from WordPress. Along with WordPress 5 comes the new “block” editor. The fanfares have sounded for many months. The unveiling shows an astonishing lack of understanding of the needs of users. The many superlative adjectives of ease and speed are empty promises.…… Continue reading An Era Ends

Interview

Aircraft Engine

Interview by Our Arts Magazine Thrill, oh rapture, Fame! I have been interviewed by Our Arts Magazine. The article was published July 27, 2017. Interview Article Below here are the images used in the article – just for fun here. Go read the article.  

Holiday Boutique

Holiday Shop

Holiday Shop For the shopping pleasure of my friends I have “rented” a site over on my CloudLadder.net business for a holiday boutique. It is just a temporary shop, here for the holidays.  The CloudLadder.net site is one that I use for demonstrating ideas to customers and prospective customers, so it is only used for…… Continue reading Holiday Boutique

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

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

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

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