Welcome to My Personal Website!

 
Project management is my career, it's my profession, my day job, and a passion for over the past 14 years. I am equally passionate about my creative endeavors, photography, poetry, prose, computers, and creative thinking. This website contains content relating to all these interests. Enjoy!

Project Management ... My professional life.

Over the past 14 years that I have been a project manager, I have managed many hardware and software implementations. These projects ranged form smaller projects to large, state-wide implementations. Along the way I earned 4 professional certifications in project management. I have a webpage devoted to my professional life and project management. It contains information about me and my career.

Poetry

There are a number of webpages that branch off of the main webpage about poetry: Poetic Endeavors. I have individual poems and also a chapbook webpage: My Chapbook I have a webpage for both Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare.

I have become a huge fan of Emily Dickinson's hymn meter poems. Hymn meter poems are typically short and align to a church hymn's stressed and unstressed patterns. Below is a short video of some of my hymn meter poems.

15 Hymn Meter Poems

Depending on your choice of web browser this Video will start automatically, or you will need to launch it with the start button. Double-click on video for full screen.

Photography

I loved photography since my high school days. I was a photographer for our yearbook and photographed local sports events for the town newspaper. From there I joined the Navy as a photographer. After the Navy I was a photographer for the marketing department at the local hospital. I rarely do photography for money these days, but I love photography just as much as I did professionally. These days it is all about the enjoyment of art.

My website contains photographs that span decades, although the majority of images I have posted on line come from more recent times. In addition to the photographs I have provided information on my camera equipment, both digital and large format film. I have also shared my photography work flows. plus a collection of miscellaneous photographic information and links. You can find it all under the above menu items: Photography and Photo Technique. As for my favorite photographers, Edward Weston, John Sexton, Ansel Adams top the list.

As 2021 begins, I hope to add some new photographs. Winter and late Fall are my favorite times of the year to be in the woods, by the water, photographing in black & white. A crispness in the air, transfers well into my photographs. also, sometimes one can not see the trees for all their leaves.

Follow the menus to view my photography webpages.

Moonrise over Jetty

Rehoboth, DE

Weblog: The Day Books of Rick Dixon

I have ignored both my website and my WordPress blog the past 3 years.  This winter I decided to return to the joys of being on the Internet.  I have to learn BootStrap and become up to date in my web abilities.  I lost my earlier blog and will start a new one.  I just need to find a template that makes me happy.. All of this to say - I'll be back!

Click on the WordPress icon to the right to quickly navigate to my blog:A link is also located in the above menu.

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Creative Endeavors Idea Scrapbook

Last year I added a new webpage on creative thinking. One of my resolutions was to think more creatively. I felt as though I have allowed some creative idleness to set in my mind and wised to rectify it. My self-assigned goal is to attempt to come up with a good idea every day. I believe the practice of doing so will be self-rewarding and beneficial in all areas; work, writing and photography. The habit of thinking creatively brings about more creative thinking. I quickly became stagnant on new ideas. By the end of the year I hope to rework the section to keep it alive, but must remain realistic on its upkeep. Click on light bulb to the right to jump to my Idea Scrapbook webpage.