I am now officially taking bookings for the 2012 Wedding Season. All the same cool stuff is available as well from albums to the Awesome Booth. If you’re interested in details use the contact form on the site. For those looking for engagement, family or any other shoot feel free to contact me as well.
And just to keep this post interesting here’s an unseen shot:
In the summer months I sponsor my own slo-pitch team. We have been together for 8 years now and I took over the sponsorship last year to give us a solid sponsor year after year instead of our general scrambling. Our team name is the Curt O’Neil Photo Beards.
This year was time to get us a proper jersey. After searching around for exactly what I wanted it seemed like it was impossible. Finally a solution came from Stefan at Sault Screeners who recommended “just get what you want” and the plan to order them custom made was put into motion. The goal after getting Jeannette from Jeannette’s Custom Cakes to design the logo was for the shirts to look like the throwback San Diego Padre jerseys. Each jersey was hand sewn and assembled which made them delayed for this season. This week is our last week of games and the jerseys came in last Friday.
So what do you do when you have awesome jerseys, little games left to play and not that great of a win-loss record? You give your jerseys their own photo shoot and official unveiling on your website.
So without further ado, here are the Beards:
Jes is trying to start a new dog band craze that she hopes will sweep the nation. She’s assembled a team of hounds and one Jack Russell named Harvey. If Justin Bieber can take off why can’t this right? Below featured from youngest to oldest are Monty, Harvey, Daisy, Fozzie and Domino – they are blood hounds, basset hounds and the Jack Russell.
When I started this whole photography thing my mom was somewhat proud of me but would constantly say “I won’t really know if this is what you should be doing until I see some of your pictures in a magazine with a scantily clad woman on the cover.”
Well mom, your dream has come true!
I have a couple of shots featured on an article about Lion Ride in the summer issue of Urban Male Magazine (UMM) available at newsstands wherever the magazine is sold (Mac’s had them in the Sault). There’s a quick interview in the band section of the magazine with Mikey and Marky and the shots are from their show here in the Sault trying to earn the opening spot for Kiss. For those of you who don’t know how this big carnival ride known as “Curt O’Neil Photographer” began it was with live band photography and Lion Ride is one of the few live shows that I still get out and shoot. It is definitely nice seeing something that I was passionate about and got me to where I am now being in a national mag. Also for those of you who have had shoots with me and I show you my “rock button” to prove that the bag I carry around is cool, it’s a Lion Ride button, told you it was cool.
Here’s some snaps from the mag as well as the two published shots nice and big.
One year ago today we got burnt… badly… and we got married. Sunscreen would have been a good choice. I think the year has flown by and it is kind of crazy that it has already been a year.
Since the wedding we made it out to Hawaii (our honeymoon), watched the Packers beat the Bears (always a good day) and had the amazing opportunity to go to Italy to shoot a wedding and get some free time to check out the country on our own. Jes and I love to travel and the idea of seeing as much as we can while we can so adding two new places in the past year is awesome.
A lot of you know that I’m the idiot behind the camera but you do not know that Jes is the brains behind the business aspects of the business. The number crunching, the tax paying (yuck) and keeping me on track and showing up for your shoot. So without her this crazy photo business wouldn’t be anywhere near where it is today.
Happy Anniversary Jes!
(the Hawaii shots are shot by me except for the one of us on the bike, that was shot by our spotter/driver; the wedding shots are from the super awesome Mark Ridout)
