Last weekend, I finally made it to convert my nature photography site, focusonnature.be, to Drupal. Until then, it had been running for several years on some home made scripts. It's a shame it took so long, I know :-)
I didn't have much time, so I left the theme to be Garland for now (even with one of the default color schemes). The site illustrates how Drupal can be used to easily create a simple photo blog or photo gallery site with minimum effort.
Only four contributed modules were used:
pathauto
tagadelic
image
image gallery
I created one free tagging vocabulary to be able to add keywords to my images on the fly. Tagadelic is used to display these keywords in tag clouds. Pathauto was setup to automatically generate path aliases for my image nodes, but also for any keyword I would use. Image module was slightly hacked to display the full image in teasers (and not the thumbnail). Image gallery module was slightly hacked to display "previous image" and "next image" links above each image when browsing the gallery - making it _much_ easier to navigate. I only use one gallery for now, but obviously it would be very easy to add additional (possibly nested) galleries.
So this is my 4th post on here about our site. We've played around with it and got it how we like.
I am no php guy but I did use views in a moderate success. I want to learn tabs now.
I got the idea for this site because of a thread on a message forum called "What are you listening to now?" - and after posting allot in the thread, talking about the music I like / etc, I figured - why not just blog about it?