accolades

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.

09-05-2022
CBS Channel 4 news story about the Mass Audubon photography contest featuring my sweat bee photo from a few years ago
CBS News (video)

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

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 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)

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

Wicked Local

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.
NBC News (video)

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