Uebelhart . Net

Well, I’m finally moving on the photo biz to get it better organized and together.

I’ll run it with 3 websites right now: Steel-sun.com , SunStockPhoto.com , and ShootHouston.com

Steel-sun.com will be the main site and feature the “fine art” and limited edition prints for sale.  I’m already getting linked in with Amazon to handle payments & money processing and some great pro printers to handle image printing.  It will also provide the gateway links to the other 2 sites.

SunStockPhoto.com will be general stock sales and licensing

ShootHouston.com will be specific stock photos dealing with Houston, Texas only.

I’ve ordered the general business cards for Steel-Sun.com (front & back images):

I’ve got to refile the DBAs for the company (address info has changed on them) and expand my sales tax permit.

The website structures are in development, I don’t know how long it’ll take though.

I’ve added a few new things on the side bar to the right (some were already there in test phase).

The 2 primary things are the Photoblog Addon, and the Random Images.

The Photoblog addition allows me to just upload a picture and it’ll show the latest 2 or 3.  This way I can upload an image without having to post a new article in the blog.  If you click the “More Photos” link, it’ll display the history of these photoblog posts.  (Right now there are only 2 images - a film stock photo I took last year, and an old store/warehouse pic I took a few days ago in Palestine, Texas).  I’ll update these images whenever I get a neat image in a set or if I just want to post something for the heck of it.  I probably won’t update that more than once a day.  If I have a set of images, I’ll be making a gallery of them like normal and post it, but may upload one of it’s images in the photoblog area.

The Random Images section finds 2 images from the history of my posts. These should not include any images placed in the Photoblog area above, and most gallery shots won’t be in there.  So these are basically historical images from when I posted directly in the blog articles.  I’ve been seeing some pop up there I have completly forgotten about.  It is truly random and new ones will show up with every refresh/visit.  I’m not sure how many are in the pool, so I don’t know how long before you see a repeat.

Last week I got to go to the Houston Museum of Natural Science after normal closing hours and shoot for about 3 hours.  This was due to a local photo group I hang out online at (Houston Strobist).  The object of the shoot was to experiment and learn about lighting in new and different ways.  Quite alot of fun.

Here’s a gallery of images I took that night (click on image for gallery):

Okay, finally got a gallery up for Chichen Itza.

Let’s see how this will work out.

Click on the picture for the gallery.

I’ve updated the site software (WP 2.7.1) and design template.

I still have some work to do

• Organize the photo libraries/galleries so they are all accessable from the link/button below
• Kill off some dead space & files
• Put my own graphics/pictures in here for the background and titles
• bunch of housekeeping and other junk.

The site may go down for a bit while it is being updated.

A new look and new organization is coming!