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by silveira 3797 days ago
There are usages for this kind of image viewer but frankly I find them very annoying most of the time. A good example to follow is the Boston Globe's Big Picture (click in any image at https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture to see a gallery). Just having all images in a good resolution, vertically stacked in a page has an awesome user experience. I can just scroll which fells very natural, and images will just load in background. If you want to go fancy you can have some JS to control in which order the images should load, and limit the bandwidth.
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I also dislike "gallery" type of presentations. I also prefer an example similar to the "bostonglobe.com", perhaps with some blazy effects http://dinbror.dk/blazy/.
I prefer this too.

But I guess that people who know stuff about photography will say the photos won't get the needed exposure...

We have our saas startup and one of the main point was loading images order, it changes the user perception a lot especially since our users insist in having hundred megabytes worth of photo (but I'm working at automatically optimizing them)
My screen is a bit too small and I can't see the complete picture. Makes me have to scroll back and forth to read the text and look at the image. For my screen I would have preferred gallery in this case.
Try resizing the window.
At a certain point, scrolling past 20 images is annoying.