Photo Galleries

With convergence swallowing up more and more media outlets into its one, all-consuming vacuum of information, online video and audio are becoming more and more pervasive. Photo galleries seem to have been pushed to the bottom of the list in terms of valuable, online, multimedia content, but that is not to say that they are not still worthy of mention. I have selected 3 slideshows that I feel are good examples of just how this format is valuable.

1. The Giants.com website has a photo gallery for each week of the season, which includes pictures from the games, as well as pictures from tailgates in the Giants Stadium parking lot. Each picture is very high quality, and usually has some type of caption describing the content. Giants.com Photo Gallery

2. Webshots.com is an entire website completely dedicated to the production, categorization and viewing of online photo galleries produced by users. After a free registration a user can upload thousands of pictures and send the url for their photo gallery to anyone. The amount of space is unlimited. There is no HTML coding involved, the website itself is fully self-sustained, you only have to upload the files and add a small caption if you choose to. You can also download images. Webshots.com

3. A third and final example of a worthy photo gallery can be found in varying formats on multiple news websites. CNN.com prvoides more video than photo with their stories now, but this photo gallery describing a New Year celebration in Afgahnistan is a good example of a News Photo Gallery. The pictures are accompanied by much more in depth captions, and generally flow in a progressive pattern. Take a look at an example of a CNN.com photo gallery. Afghani New Year