Posts Tagged ‘Paintball’

Parting ways.

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Breaking up is never easy to do kids, but sometimes when all else fails – it’s the only option. I resuscitated Phamous back in 2007 with Steve Potter, when we decided to take the taboo name of Phamous and our love for photography and try to make something of ourselves. What came of it was nothing short of life lessons and an amazing adventure. I’ve traveled up and down the east coast, photographing paintball players in the NPPL (RIP), PSP, NEPL, NEXL, AXBL (RIP), CXBL, and NCPA. I’ve met hundreds of great people along the 4 year journey that took a small, two man photography operation and turning it into a national name at one point. I’ll always have crazy stories to tell of those adventures and the photos to back them up, never was there a dull moment at any event.

Unfortunately I can no longer make the commit to Phamous Media that I have in years past. Our goal was always to provide high quality, large quantity free work for everyone- I never believed in charging for my work no matter how much time went into it. As Phamous Media takes a turn in another direction, and I begin to start my career as a private investigator I feel now is the best time for me to part ways.

Like I said, I have met hundreds of people throughout the years but there a few I wanna thank here because without them- none of you would even know who Phamous Media was. Without Lenny Emery, Joseph Devaney, Cole Hubacz, Patrick Clark, Steve Potter, Tom Brierton & Brooke Hattan (Matts Outback) Lori & Anthony Miller (BP/NEPL) and Jeff Stien (NE Hurricanes) there would be no Phamous Media.

Thank you to everyone who supported Phamous Media and myself through kind words, putting out stickers on your gear, and rocking our shirts. It’s been a great experience and if anyone would like to contact me please feel free to email me.

Shane

PSP New Jersey Open 2011

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

What an event, 85+ degrees Friday and Saturday.. then BAM monsoon Sunday. I wanna first off say congratulations to Team No Name on their Division 3 win and also to 187 Crew on their Division 1 win. Way to bring the hardware back to New England boys. As for me, this was my first national event since NPPL Boston 2007. That said, a lot has changed since 7 man days of NPPL, but none the less it was a great event for me. Thanks to everyone that shared some water on those hot days, and let me find shelter under their tent during the monsoon.
My Best of NJO Gallery can be found at my Flickr gallery set
 

PSP NJO Friday PSP NJO Saturday PSP NJO Sunday (TNN)

 
Enjoy everyone… oh and someone bring me to World Cup!
 
Shane
 

NCPA NEIC, Class A & AA.

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

What better way to spend a Halloween afternoon than with some college paintball.  The NEIC’s AA Fall Northeast Conference was held at Camelot Paintball in Chicopee, MA.  The conference had a solid turn out even with the raining weather.  You can checkout all the college AA paintball action in the gallery below.  Enjoy.



NEIC; Camelot Paintball (Cole)

Unknowingly Me and Cole covered all of the NEIC action this past weekend and I happen to be at Matt’s Outback Paintball in Coventry, CT covering the class A side of things, while he was up in Mass covering class AA. All the teams played some great paintball despite the wet and muddy conditions, and I hope you all were able to salvage some Halloween madness when you arrived back home.



NCPA NEIC Class A Event 2 (Shane)

For my favorite shots of the day visit www.obeypictures.net (shanecoutu)

In before the cut.

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Well, I’ve been busy- really busy. I had AXBL Event 1, fallowed by NEPL E2, and now this weekend is AXBL E2 in between those weekend adventures for me came full work weeks. I now have for everyone my Best of AXBL and Best of MXL for Event 1. These include more photos that what was posted on my flickr site ( www.flickr.com/phamousmedia-shane )

MXL Favorites:


MXL Favorites (Shane)

AXBL Favorites:


AXBL Favorites (Shane)


To find photos of full matches please visit www.hoofheartedproductions.com you can also purchase high quality prints and get high resolution photos put onto a cd there.

Unfortunately for Event 2 I will only be there for Sundays action, my sister is graduating on Saturday and for me, family comes first. So, I’ll see everyone Sunday!

Shane

Making the cut.

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Another great turnout for the AXBL Newark Team No Name and MAXL Sodus Point No Name Kids tryouts. Today was the final judgment day for everyone and the pressure was on to get the job done. Which made for some interesting photos,

What did I learn today? It’s not a good idea to have more than two people dive into a bunker at the same time, gets sloppy.

I notice a lot of people saving and re-uploading photos, since we do not watermark our photos where ever you re-post please show the love and at least drop our website in the caption. For those on PBN, feel free to add us to your signature it means a lot.



TNN/TNNK Final Tryouts

NEPL 2008 Event 3

Monday, August 4th, 2008

It was great to be back for NEPL Event 3, the rain held off for the most part and with the sun shinning in threw the clouds at times it made for some great photos. Me and Cole shot around 350 photos each and sorted out the best for everyone to see. Can’t wait for Event 4!

NEPL 2008 Event 3 (Shane)
NEPL 2008 Event 3 (Cole)

And yes, face shots are trendy.

NCPA National Championship

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Phamous Media is down in Lakeland, Fl covering UConn and other teams for the 2008 NCPA National Championship. The weather is nice, the shenanigans are cheeky and fun and the paintball, is… well paintball to say the least.

NCPA Nationals-UConn

Besides UConn, Phamous Media also covered- Rutgers, WVU, and Drexel on Friday;

NCPA Friday

Saturday; Class AA Preliminaries, Class A Semi-Finals

NCPA Saturday

Unfortunately today was the end of the road for UConn, They played UCI again in the second round after a first round bye. UCI took an early 3-0 lead, but UConn came back with 6 unanswered points but fell short in the end.

Sunday: Final Four and Finals Action. The Final Four saw Ohio vs. Illinois State Redbirds and UCI vs. Illinis Illini.

NCPA Sunday

Phamous v.3

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Here we go again! Back with v.3.0 because Pat and Cole keep nuking the
Wordpress without backing it up, here I am starting fresh again.

Hopefully in the near future we will be acquiring a vinyl cutter and begin a long process of t-shirt design and sticker making. Once we get the process down we will be taking orders for stickers and eventualy other items.

To keep everyone updated in the paintball world for Phamous Media;

We will be attending

  • All NEPL events and possibly NEPL Jr
  • We do plan on attending most if not all GPL events
  • Possibly some AXBL events
  • Majority of Matt’s Outback Paintball tournaments.

Since it’s the off season for paintball, enjoy some off season pictures:

UConn Urban
UConn Sessions

and here are some rare winter paintball photos:

Matt’s Outback, Feb. 3!