Islay Gallery - Isle of Islay Photography

What do you do when you have more than 2,000 pictures of Islay? Burn them on a disc, use a couple on the Islayinfo website, upload them to flickr or another media site? This is a question I had to answer and I came up with the following: A special website (in this case a subdomain of Islayinfo) which shows the most beautiful places the island has to offer and nothing more, just pictures and their descriptions. A name for this site was easily found and so was the logo:

A few months ago I started searching for a good script that could help me with my goals and after several test installations I found the Gallery2 script the best option for this job. This piece of smart software is well designed and offers a lot of flexibility as well as several beautiful themes. Since I always liked pictures displayed with a dark background I found a beautiful theme and started working on this new site.

At this very moment the site contains a little more than 200 beautiful pictures of Islay, categorized in 11 albums and one sub album. My personal favorites are the Islay Sunsets and Islay Landscapes but the others are of course worth looking at as well, although I'm a bit biased since I took all the pictures myself. There are various options for viewing the pictures including slideshows and full views and each picture can be sent to your friends or family as a postcard (check out the slidebar button for all the options). The Gallery will be updated with even more pictures soon and my goal is to have at least 500 pictures in the gallery before the end of this year. The pictures on the site are not for sale, I leave that to professionals such as Mark Unsworth from Islay Studios. So without further adue here is the link to the new Islay Media Gallery. I hope you enjoy the pictures!