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13dream with photographs, titles, and descriptions that do not mock the subjects%u2019 desires, instead they made readers feel included in the subjects%u2019 aspirations. Suburbia was something new in photography and it stuck a chord with audiences, leading to museums exhibits and collectors purchasing Owens%u2019 photographs. So Owens replicated success with similar themes in Our Kind of People (1975) and Working (I Do It for the Money) (1977).52 These works were, in part, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts scholarships.53Owens continued to take newspaper photographs for The Livermore Independent and other Bay Area newspapers throughout the 1970s. In 1980, he self-published Publish Your Photo Book: A Guide to Self Publishing. Soon after, Bill was fired from The Livermore Independent and his first wife, Linda, tooktheir two sons and left him. He felt that he had exhausted his photography career and was ready for something else. Owens said, %u201cbeer's expensive so I was brewing my own beer.%u201d54Fortunately, he had been homebrewing for 11 years and found himself with %u201cplenty of time to brew.%u201d55 After experimenting with homemade brewing equipment Owens decided to open a micro-brewery in 1981. He attended workshops offered by Dr. Lewis at UC Davis and professional brewing conferences. He read the stapled copies of Amateur Brewer, Home Fermenter%u2019s Digest, and other brewing materials available at the local homebrew shop in San Leandro. He noticed that the recipes and advice were often redundant and focused on ingredients, not materials, and that most brewing news focused on the rise of small, independent, and traditional breweries through the late 1970s and early 1980s. Owens merged his publishing and homebrewing experiences by self-publishing How to Build a Small Brewery: Draft Beer in Ten Days in 1982.