Since I'm in a reflective, sort of navel-gazing mood this evening -- and there's nothing on TV -- I'd like to ask you about the picture of me that is at the top left-hand side of the site.
Jeremy Parzen told me recently that the picture I have up there now doesn't look like me. It was taken just a year and a half ago, but I have, as he so kindly pointed out, gained weight since then. For later, archival interest here is the pic in question:
Damn it, I think this is one of the few pictures ever taken that didn't make me look like a "cross-eyed epileptic like the whole Bradshaw family", as my aunt and I used to say. Taken at Fattoria Le Fonti in Chianti, August 2006.
Some alternatives, dubious at best:
Clearly a phone pic. Central Park, July 2006. Moderately geeky.
(Note to Italians: this word is pronounced 'ghik,' not 'gik'.)
One of many Beauty and the Beast shots. Here with Egle Armani in New York last April.
Age is the star of this one. Polignano a Mare, Puglia, June 2007.
I must love this public self-humiliation, eh?
Pergamum, Turkey, 2006. Searching the Wine Horizon.
Eat your heart out, John Barrymore.
Vote!
Vote for the picture you want to see at the top of this site!
Be sure to write a brief essay stating which photo you'd choose and at least 3 reasons why this was your choice. (The teacher and copywriter in me die hard.)
In marketing terms, I guess you could say this is an Audience Participation feature, a way to Get People Involved, etc. Honestly, I just couldn't write about wine tonight. I paraphrase an alleged comment by Jancis Robinson at a tasting dinner a few years ago, "After a while it's all really the same, isn't it?"
I have to have another coffee and ponder these.
Posted by: Marco | January 26, 2008 at 09:33 AM
I vote for the Puglia shot.
1. It's in southern Italy; the backdrop dovetails thematically with mondosapore
2. You look like your are enjoying yourself, on the sea savoring the soft Puglese air
3. I like horizontal blue & white stripes on a man
Posted by: Marco | January 26, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Hey Terry I think is best if you put a picture of a vine or something, in alternative the part on the right of your pic with Egle :)
Posted by: gabrio | January 26, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Now you've hurt my feelings.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 26, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Definitely the turkey shot.
Bye, Fil.
p.s. : did you miss the "tigullio rocks" shot ? I mean the one that we took in the panoramic way between Rapallo and Chiavari. Do you remember ?
Bye, Fil.
Posted by: Filippo Ronco | January 26, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Crop the image of Ms. Armani and run it over and over. (You asked for this treatment!)
no, really, the shot from Pergamum, you look incredibly distinguished, perhaps even wise.
Posted by: fredric koeppel | January 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM
FK, I AM distinguished and wise.
Alas, a prophet is without honour in his own apartment.
Fil, I didn't see it when I looked at the folder. I must check it again.
Marco, you're dangerously seductive.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 26, 2008 at 01:03 PM
So I've heard.
Turkey shoot, er, shot is my 2nd choice.
You look like you could be out on yacht sipping Passito in a Rossellini film.
Posted by: Marco | January 26, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Terry,
You need one with the new glasses...very chic.
I'm not voting until I see one.
Posted by: Jeff Mazen | January 26, 2008 at 04:28 PM
Where's AC?
Posted by: Marco | January 26, 2008 at 05:44 PM
On the Jersey Shore of course.
Oh, the other AC?
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 26, 2008 at 06:18 PM
I like the Puglia shot myself. For the record, Terry, we all love you "just the way you are."
Posted by: Jeremy Parzen | January 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM
ILU 2 Jeremy.
BTW, you should give Robin Stark a call out there in SD. She's really delightful and knows everybody in the wine biz in SD and LA.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM
BTW, it's gratifying to see that my narcissistic self-absorption has stimulated so much comment. Thank you all.
As my late wife used to say, "The most important person in Terry's world is Terry." I call it enlightened self-interest.
No -- survival.
Posted by: Terry Hughes | January 27, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Terry, I can identify with the self-image conflicts...did you ever consider a career on the stage?
The profile shot is *it*. Barrymore indeed.
You could even possibly darken it into silhouette, too-- or lighten it for just a bit more detail...
love you, old man. djr
Posted by: David J | January 27, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Mondo~Terry:
Even though we all say down heah in Tejas, "It ain't the wand, it's the magician," I honestly dont think any of the pictures accurately portray you in this present time. Methinks you need some more photos taken. In NYC, aren't there a million budding shooters who'd trade some wine for "un buen retrato?"
Marco: I'm busy being a slum landlord;)
Posted by: AC | January 27, 2008 at 03:19 PM
AC I daresay I've never had a good or adequately insightful photo taken. Maybe because there's no there there.
Posted by: Himself | January 27, 2008 at 05:15 PM
btw, I've never commented (on your blog) on how much I like the title of your blog... does anyone remember the Italian "mondo" films of the 70s?
buona domenica a tutti...
Posted by: Jeremy Parzen | January 27, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I think you're gorgeous in every one. You should just make a huge collage of THEM ALL in the shape of a wine bottle.
Posted by: Lisa Qiu | January 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Hi!
I course I vote for POLIGNANO shot.
It's my picture!
Ciao
Carmela
Posted by: Carmela | January 28, 2008 at 04:05 AM
The Turkey shot.
1. ruggedly handsome
2. it's by the sea
3. I can feel the serenity
Posted by: JMH | January 30, 2008 at 03:39 PM
Thanks, bro. There's a certain family resemblance there, eh?
Posted by: Himself | January 30, 2008 at 03:41 PM
caro Terry,
io voto per la 3°foto with Egle Armani. Molto romantica.
Posted by: francesco mazzone | February 06, 2008 at 04:34 PM