Pixonomy

What Next?

]]> "I love the industrial feel of this. Where is it?"
"The composition on this is just superb! love the blueness of the water."
"Those scholler photos are cool, but we love your photos the best."

1,209 comments, 1,077 photos, 2 years, 11 months, and few days later what have I learned from the online photoblog experiment I called Pixonomy.com? Well it's great to know that people "love" your photos. As Robert Adams writes in Why People Photograph:

"Artists sometimes claim they work without thought of an audience—that they make pictures just for themselves. We are not deceived. The only reward worth that much effort is a response, and if no one pays attention, or if the artist cannot live on hope, then he or she is lost."

So thank you to everyone that has visited this site and posted a few encouraging words. However, I feel it's time to try something new and evolve what I am doing. So over the next few months the site will be on hold as I decided what my next steps will be. Stay tuned....

Photo Books

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Martin Parr by Val Williams

Helen Levitt: Mexico City by Helen Levitt

Our Kind of People by Bill Owens

2005 Powerhouse Publish Portfolio

Message of Fear

I fear the message light on my work phone. You never know what the message might be, especially late on a Friday. Stuff like clients needing projects done by Monday, which means working the weekend. Fortunately, I was able to escape this fate tonight.

Back Home

Didn’t really do much tonight. Caught up on things at home, including doing the dishes.

Puerto Rico Highlights

Didn’t get home this morning until 5am because our flight was severely delayed out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Just added to a tough trip full of bad weather and a lot of bad luck. Still there were many highlights – reaching land after a seasickening voyage to Culebra, dining on fresh fish at Mamacitas, drinking Medallas from our hotel balcony as the waves crashed on the beach, and occasionally getting a glimpse of the sun.

No Es Bueno

Bad weather continues. Woke this morning to thunder and lightening. Plans to hit the beach were dashed.

Fajardo Ferry

Took the ferry today from Fajardo to Culebra. Weather has not been too good in Puerto Rico this weekend. Still raining today and the sea was pretty rough. We were trapped below deck as the boat bobbed and swayed through the crashing waves. Not exactly an enjoyable ride. So I was very grateful to land on the Island of Culebra.

Puerto Rico

Landed in Puerto Rico a little before noon. Great to be in the warm tropical climate.

Bad Sign

Looking forward to the long weekend and a much needed trip to the tropics. Unfortunately, things didn’t get off to a good start today. I discovered this note on the windshield of my car and found my left front fender banged up. Oh well, at least my neighbor left a note and took responsibility for the accident.

Baryshnikov in Beckett’s Shorts

Had front row seats tonight at the New York Theatre Workshop to see Mikhail Baryshnikov in the Beckett Shorts. The GF wasn’t a big fan of the bleak Beckett plays, but enjoyed a close up glimpse of Baryshnikov in his boxers. To me Beckett’s message is about our ability to endure and survive, even if it means simply moving forward one mundane and often meaningless step at a time.

Winter Sky in Brooklyn

Winter months are tough for photography. It’s dark when I get up and dark when I leave the office. Thus I try to get out as much as possible on the weekend. Above is another shot from Brooklyn on Sunday.

In Defense of Food

Just read a review of Michael Pollen's new book "In Defense of Food". Sounds like a sad manifesto of the American diet. A quote from the book reads, "Fast food is precisely the way you'd expect a people to eat who put success at the center of life, who work long hours (with two careers per household), get only a couple of weeks vacation each year, and who can't depend on a social safety net to cushion them from life's blows."

Insider Perspective

So I've been dating this beautiful girl since September, yet I never mention her on the blog or post her picture. Seems odd I suppose, however blogging about my private life has never been the goal of this site. My objective is simply to practice my photography by posting a daily picture, which might convey my perspective -- often trivial but occasionally entertaining. Next month will mark the 3 year anniversary of Pixonomy.com. At which point I think I'm going to try something new. Maybe scrap the blogging concept in favor of a portfolio web site. We shall see....

Sunny Sunday

Another beautiful sunny day in Brooklyn. Spent the afternoon catching up with a friend over in Windsor Terrace. Not a bad little neighborhood. If I ever buy a place this seems to be what I could afford. It would be a few more stops out on the F train but still close to Prospect Park and some of the other stuff I enjoy.

Village Drinks

Early to bed early to rise. Managed to get out of bed before noon today. Nothing beats walking out my door to a fresh sunny wintry day, picking up the NY Times, a coffee, and a bagel. Finished the day drinking with friends in the west village.