I've never been one to toot my own horn unless it comes up organically but I figured it might be a good idea to compile some things somewhere in some form at some point.
This is a selection of my more memorable moments of recognition.

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Cover and Disc art on upcoming solo album by Derrick Trafecante featuring Derek Sherinian. Release date TBA.

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3-15-2020
Finalist in the Hunt's Photo & Video "Architecture in Boston" photo contest. I wouldn't normally enter a contest about Boston architecture with a photo from Worcester but it clearly stated: specifically stated "Not just in Boston, but all of Massachusetts". (did not win)

3-15-2020
Entry and finalist in the Hunt's Photo & Video 'Architecture in Boston' photo contest. 590nm filter on a full spectrum camera. (did not win)

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Telegram & Gazette (above)
12-27-2019
Telegram & Gazette article
MSN [ story removed :( ]
Metro Daily West
Milford Daily News

Wicked Local

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Mass Audobon - 2019 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors' photo contest.
Winner of the 'other wildlife' category with a green sweat bee inside a flower macro.

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Mt. Wachusett summit opening ceremony of the wayside panel installation. If you were to drive up, this is the first set of panels you'd see after getting out of your vehicle. A photo I took of a deer in the woods and my name are now attached to the mountain. 9/27/18

Close up of the wayside panel on top of Mt. Wachusett.

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Artist Piya Samant presenting her stunningly accurate painting of a photo of mine. Another painting of my photo in the lower left, a hummingbird in flight.
Check out more of her work at Piya Samant Art!

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In The Canon Gallery at Hunt's Photo & Video in Melrose after winning a G9X mark ii for the photo on the left. 'Highlight the Holidays' photo contest presented by Hunt's Photo & Video and Canon.
Also the first contest I ever entered, beginners luck ;)
12/16/17

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Featured as the header image in a blog about Holiday Lights by the world famous: B&H Photo Video and Pro Audio in 2017. Below is an image found within the article that I also took.

Photo in the actual B&H article about Holiday Lights in select states. It was also featured in an updated country-wide article the following year in 2018.

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Coincidentally, in 2017 Tower Hill Botanic Garden used the same photo for their informative event mailers that B&H used for their article on Holiday Lights in Massachusetts.

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In 2018, NBC Boston did a piece on Tower Hill Botanic Gardens Holiday Light event now known as "Night Lights" with my photo used during the weather forecast for the mostly outdoor event.

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Photo used in a Boston Magazine article in 2018 about Winter Reimagined at Tower Hill Botanic Garden.