Picture this

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?"

Comments

[Marco]

I have to have another coffee and ponder these.

[Marco]

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

[gabrio]

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 :)

[Terry Hughes]

Now you've hurt my feelings.

[Filippo Ronco]

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.

[fredric koeppel]

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.

[Terry Hughes]

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.

[Marco]

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.

[Jeff Mazen]

Terry,

You need one with the new glasses...very chic.
I'm not voting until I see one.

[Marco]

Where's AC?

[Terry Hughes]

On the Jersey Shore of course.

Oh, the other AC?

[Jeremy Parzen]

I like the Puglia shot myself. For the record, Terry, we all love you "just the way you are."

[Terry Hughes]

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.

[Terry Hughes]

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.

[David J]

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