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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.

Telegram & Gazette (above)
12-27-2019
Telegram & Gazette article
MSN [ story removed :( ]
Metro Daily West
Milford Daily News
Wicked Local
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.
Winner of the 'other wildlife' category with a green sweat bee inside a flower macro.

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.

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.