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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.
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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
![Picture](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/audobon_orig.png)
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.
![Piya Samant 1](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/07-outfit-two-standing-9_orig.jpg)
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!
![Canon & Hunts photo contest](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/hunts2_orig.png)
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
![B&H blog 2](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/bh1_orig.png)
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.
![Tower Hill mailer](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/thinvite_orig.jpg)
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.
![NBC Boston](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/nbcboston1_orig.jpg)
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)
![Boston Magazine](/uploads/3/9/3/6/39361595/bostonmagazine_orig.png)
Photo used in a Boston Magazine article in 2018 about Winter Reimagined at Tower Hill Botanic Garden.