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.

Still been busy at work (organizing and getting it going).  We get a new Houston office Feb 1st, so thats good.

Also finally got off my rump and entered some pictures in a contest for 2008 (deadline is today).  Here’s a few:

Landscape: From Zion NP, Utah, my Ansel Adams styled pic (after a long HARD hike):

Panorama: Sandia Peak, NM:

Transportation: Train in San Angelo, TX:

Digital Manipulation: “Painting” of Bryce NP, Utah:

Nature: Lilly:

People: Re-enactor at the Alamo:

Macro: Filmstrip:

Sports: Dylan motorbiking:

Just got back from a weekend at Goose Island / Rockport camping out with Dawn, the pups, and Dawn’s Folks.  It was nice and relaxing.  That place is swarmed with fishermen.  Yikes.

Here’s some pics of the weekend:

Pelicans were everywhere:

Even saw other creatures, like this armadillo hiding it’s head in the beach sand “You Can’t See Me!”

And a Deer coming out to a fresh water spot (but there were gators, so it was scared to drink):

Nice sunsets every night:

Misc “Artsy” Shots from the area:

Had a business meeting in Clear Lake / Kemah on Monday, so decided to look at some of the damage that is still evident from Ike.

Just playing.

Stuff from the 16th to today, including the Chase Tower Downtown:

Chase Tower views:

Glass from the windows of the tower and other buildings:

Various Signs and damage:

Obligatory power restorer:

And Obligatory Nice Sunset (we’ve had alot of nice ones since the storm):

Monday around town:

Generators and AC units for a medical building:

Billboard with the billboard company’s info:

Reliant Stadium - roof damage:

I kinda like the way the “A” is still hanging in there.  Also you may be able to see the damage to the reliant light sign (several sections are out):

What’s funny, is this fence was down like this a few weeks ago, then they fixed it, now it’s down again:

Walmart/Sam’s “Disaster Recovery Support Center”.  This is powering a local Sam’s so we could go in and get supplies - even the credit card machine worked at the checkout.

This guy’s out enjoying the day on his Trike:

The Signal still works!:

Weird one here - this looks like it was destroyed by Ike, but in reality the building was started to be demolished last week.  But what us amazing is that Ike did not take everything that is piled there and throw it around everywhere!:

Various downed trees (look at the guy riding the tree on the house in the second one):