Happy Holidays!

 Best wishes for a joy-filled holiday season to all my friends!

My café art creation is based on one of my photos of the Northside Hospital Forsyth building taken on December 15, 2022. The rendering tries to convey a feeling of hope. 

.:. © 2022 Ludwig Keck

Glimpses

 "Glimpses" is what I call little cutouts, or vignettes, from photos. Sometimes showing the main subject more prominently, sometimes a scene in the background. I have shared some here before. Today's release over at Ludwig.Gallery serves as the source for the couple of glimpses here.

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Another Test - 221018

 The prior post started showing up at CafeLudwig.com after four days. How about this one.

Well, this post showed up right away. Blogger is working again.

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Testing - 12 October, 2022

 Something seems to have gone wrong with my prior post. 

This is just a test to make sure that posting works and that posts can be seen and found.

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Another selfie

 Last May my post here, "Child's Eye" showed my reflection. Well, I noticed another selfie in todays post in my project "Street Photography", albeit a decapitated one. 

This gave me the opportunity to test some new tools. 

What tools I used, I will discuss elsewhere - that's what my Toolshed site is for. Enough teasing. Enjoy.

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Come let's dance

 Sometimes the music just demands that we "shake a leg".

Over on Ludwig.Gallery I have been running a series of street photography selected from my archives. I came across these photos, sitting there in the RAW, unused, unseen for some eight years. 

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Ruby the Clown

 

It was eagle-eyed Beatrice that noticed the nametag of Ruby the Clown in a "My Street Photography" post. She said, "I have to admit that his name tag of “Ruby the Cow” was confusing and amusing." 

Ruby the Clown has brought smiles to the Peachtree Corners Festival for many years, and I photographed him on numerous occasions. It never occurred to me to inspect his nametag. So I asked him about it and he kindle informed me, "It is simply silly."

Well, silliness is part of being a clown. And that is quite apparent if you follow him around a bit.

It can be quite warm out on the street and a cooling station can be just what it takes to make a clown smile.

Besides being silly, Ruby the Clown also instructs. Here on how to make balloon objects.

A balloon sword sure can be fun.

Ruby has all kinds of pets too.

And what does he do with his pet shark? He takes him to swimming lessons, of course.

You never know what he does next! Be sure to look for him at an event near you.

So long!

And a big tip o' the hat to Beatrice for getting this story under way, and to Ruby the Clown for promptly and kindly helping out with the explanation.

[Photos from 2016, 2017, and 2018 appearances at the Peachtree Corners Festival when I was official festival photographer.]

.:. © 2022 Ludwig Keck