Pole Dancing by the Sea, Athletic Grace on a Mediterranean Promenade
Pole dancing is often associated with indoor studios, but this seaside performance brings the sport into an entirely different setting. Against the brilliant blue Mediterranean,…
High Alert Has Become Part of Daily Life in France
Outside the Musée d’Orsay, armed patrols share the forecourt with museum queues and a water vendor, a photograph of heightened security becoming part of everyday life in France.
Why sRGB Is Still the Right Colour Profile for Online Image Galleries
Wide-gamut screens and Display P3 phones are everywhere, but a gallery that needs to look right for every visitor still starts from sRGB. Here’s why, and when it’s worth going further.
What Content Credentials Can Tell You About a Photograph
Content Credentials can provide a signed record about a photograph’s origin and processing history. They can help a viewer inspect which tool or organization signed…
What an Image Caption Should Tell You That Alt Text Should Not
A caption and an alternative text description can refer to the same image while doing different editorial work. The caption usually gives visible context for…
Image Gallery Schema Explained: ImageGallery, MediaGallery and Structured Data for SEO
Understand ImageGallery, MediaGallery and ImageObject schema, how they describe gallery pages and photographs, and what structured data can realistically do for SEO.
Canva Launches Craft, an Image Model Trained on Design Templates Instead of Photos
Canva has shipped its first in-house image generation model. It’s called Craft, it was built by Canva’s own research team, and it’s live for every…
Making an Image Gallery Accessible: Alt Text, Captions and Keyboard Navigation
Practical ways to make an image gallery accessible, with weak and improved alt text, caption examples and a keyboard walkthrough for enlarged image views.
Image Gallery Backgrounds and Spacing: Give the Pictures Room
Choosing image gallery backgrounds and spacing through careful looking, with a sunset photograph as a test of light, dark surrounds and room between pictures.
How to Create an Image Gallery That Invites a Second Look
A personal guide to creating an image gallery through thoughtful selection, visual relationships, clear captions and enough room to notice the unexpected.
Media Gallery Image Sizes: Enough Detail Without the Wait
Choosing media gallery image sizes for clear thumbnails, rewarding larger views and sensible loading times, illustrated with Prague’s St Vitus Cathedral.
Frenchmen at Their Favorite Sport
Some nations play football. Others prefer cricket, baseball or rugby. The French, of course, have elevated street demonstrations to something approaching a national sport. It…
Pink Surfboards, Grey Street
Pink surfboards, bare feet and an obstacle course of roadworks: a street photograph finds the sea’s brightest colours somewhere entirely less convenient.
The Press Media Gallery: Give Editors Something They Can Use
What makes a press media gallery useful: accurate captions, clear credits, usable downloads, stated permissions and a contact route that saves editors time.
Building an Event Media Gallery: The Day Beyond the Stage
How to build an event media gallery that records the occasion through its people, activities and in-between moments, with clear captions and a thoughtful sequence.
Media Gallery Captions: What to Say Beneath a Photograph
How to write media gallery captions that add useful context and a personal voice, with practical examples and a Bordeaux motorcycle photograph.
Choosing Photos for a Media Gallery: The Ones I Would Keep
How to choose photos for a media gallery by judging purpose, gesture, technical quality and repetition—with a lively Bordeaux scene as the test case.
How to Build a Travel Media Gallery That Feels Like Going Somewhere
Two Prague photographs show how to shape a travel media gallery through selection, changes of scale, honest captions and a personal sense of what deserves attention.
Media Gallery Layouts: Grids, Masonry, Slideshows and Room to Look
How grids, masonry, slideshows and large-image layouts shape a media gallery—and why a neat thumbnail should not have the final say over a photograph.
How to Organize a Media Gallery Without Losing Your Pictures—or Your Patience
A practical, personal guide to organizing a media gallery with useful titles, consistent tags, clear collections and photographs people can actually find.
Media Gallery vs. Photo Gallery: What Are You Inviting People to See?
A photo gallery presents still pictures. A media gallery can include video and audio too—but choosing the right format matters more than adding more of them.
What Is a Media Gallery? A Place for Pictures Worth Staying With
What is a media gallery? A personal look at choosing photographs, combining media, writing useful captions and creating a collection people want to explore.
Rebels Without a Cause: How France Keeps Shooting Itself in the Foot
France has developed a peculiar talent for turning economic frustration into a national spectacle of self-destruction.
Fire at the Marché des Enfants Rouges: Another Piece of Old Paris at Risk
A fire has struck Paris’s Marché des Enfants Rouges, the historic covered market in the Marais. The loss is especially painful because this is not…