One of my goals this year was to hopefully have some of my work published. I think for me it was driven by my feeling that it’s sort of the ultimate trump card, in a sense that when “team subjective” shows up and passes judgement of wether they liked what you did…or thought it was worst junk they’d seen in a while…you were still the person who got printed instead of whoever else gets mentioned in the debate lol. 

I never in my wildest dreams thought that my first image to reach printed publication would be in the 2016 Formula One Black Book though. If you are unfamiliar, they cost over $100 US and ooze quality beyond any surf publication I had dreamed of. I’ve been an F1 fan for a long time and just never imagined the crossover of wine and motors that redline at 20,000 rpms would bless my lucky butt into print. A special thank you to Karen at Mount Veeder Magic Vineyard for hiring me to do the night harvest work that eventually checked off a big goal of mine this year.