I’m still struggling with the Gallery as a place worth visiting. If it was a camera I wouldn’t buy it. Too heavy, too many buttons, and absolutely too many nested menus. When I click on Gallery the first thing I see is a set of photos with 30-50% photos I’ve seen there before. I then have to hunt for recent ones, and then I have to experiment with how to get the photograph and comments on it. And that requires more effort, aided mostly by the fact that I know there are comments for a particular photo, so pressing on to hunt for them will provide a return. As a discussion, editing and learning exercise the old gallery worked better.
If by Gallery we might mean a collection of fine photographs, static, like my favourite paintings in the National Gallery of Victoria I’ve been visiting for over 50 years, then I’d like access to that. There have been stellar gems here I could describe, just as there were only descriptions of paintings in my 1930 catalogue of pictures in The National Gallery in London. Some of Steveh’s, Tuna’s, Lynnb’s, Bingley’s, tigerphil’s, Mlehrmann’s etc etc etc would be in such a gallery.
The Gallery here several years ago was more like folios presented to a gallerist running a gallery. Some fell off the front page and to oblivion, gaining little attention. Others kept being noted and commented on, sometimes so much that the first page was all the same picture, each iteration on account of a new comment. That was undemocratic but meritocratic.
Maybe we should have two galleries: static with little change, and an active gallery.
