They're beautiful photos -- my only comment, really, is that I'd like to see more!

The photos are amazing! You make even fairly mundane subjects interesting. I find the arrangement of the photos across the page a little odd, but maybe that's just me. I'm sure I'll get used to it. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

While I'd like to simply blame my camera for the quality of the digital photos I usually take, I must admit that seeing your work gives me the impression that the person behind the camera also has something to do with the quality of the resulting composition. The pictures are all wonderful, as your pictures usually are.

About the gallery format: I like the addition of the |<< button. However, I was wondering if this format might not be extensible enough: as you add pictures (please do!) you'll end up with a page that really throws the bits around, as they say. Perhaps something like the Hart House European Adventure page might be a more appropriate way of segmenting galleries, and then each gallery could be a pop-up (shiver!) that scrolled sideways, and had a |X| (close window) button at the end of the row.

The photos are totally awesome! And I'm basically with Mike on the side scrolling thing; I've never been a big fan, though the snap-back arrow is a nice feature. I, too, would like to see more photos and, subsequently, see how the arrangement works as more get added. I've long toyed with a similar idea and hope to get it going for my far-too-long-in-the-works Web site.

Great work! All very impressive - you have taken some beautiful photos.

I have to agree with everyone's comments though - I wanted to look at each section individually but felt that I had to scroll right to do so, then snap back, then scroll again (which is made easier on OS X as holding down the shift key and turning the scroll wheel is mapped to horizontal scroll).

A thought: you could make a thumbnail version of all the photos and display those when the page loads. If they were small enough, users would still get a feel for the page but be able to see two to three times more photos without scrolling. Add an "Expand" button to each section, which changes the thumbnails into the large versions for that section. I'd use JavaScript, storing the name of each photo in an array and doing a quick step through, swapping the src for each photo to photoname_big.jpg instead. Then you could keep the side scrolling, but show more photos.

(Or you could abandon the side scrolling and use floats to put your photos in rows that automagically size to the browser width - see the photos on Päaeez as an example. Float all the photos left, then stick a div at the end of all of them, styled "clear: both;")

No matter what you do - please post more!

j