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a new era, originally uploaded by sanyam.

a new day, a fresh beginning, dawn of a new era. Nov 4th will be remembered.

welcome !!!

If you happen to be a photog and want to publish or showcase your photographs, there are “comparatively” very few options available when it comes to wordpress themes. Most of the wordpress themes put emphasis on text with the ability to add photographs but they are not optimized to showcase them. 

A photoblog is optimized for photographs or digital creation with very little attention to the text. Like a photographer who keeps the background out of focus and avoids clutter while composing a portrait, photoblog needs a very clean and clutter free theme to provide more attention to the images. Also, there are many ways people would want to showcase their images, some would like their images framed, or sharing an entire gallery with a slideshow, some might like to showcase them big (atleast 800×600), or on a black background.

Here’s a list of such wordpress themes (free) which are actually good for publishing photographs or images in some form of a photoblog.

Photo-Blog wordpress theme

• Specially made for photo blogs
• Single column design
• Unique design
• xhtml valid
• Widget ready
• Collapsible navigation
• Minimalistic design

PhotoBlog

• simple
• single column
• fixed width
• minimalistic design
• supports changing the background color to enhance the Photo

Nishita

A very simple and elegant PhotoBlog theme.

Nautilus

Grain

PhotoWP

Click – Polaroid – Simplet – Spotless - MonoTone

• These are more or less same and provide a neat experience for showcasing photos.
• Single Column
• Very simplistic
• Clean designs
• Dark backgrounds and borders
• supports image size of 640×480, could be increased by editing the css.

Apart from these themes there are some wordpress plugins which will be of great help

1. YAPB (Yet another Photoblog plugin), There is a list of some free themes here which support this plugin.  

2. PhotoQ

On the last note, if you use wordpress for your blog and interested in maintaining a photoblog the Photoblogs and Galleries page is pretty good to start.

Nagarjuna Sagar Left Earth Dam [HDR], originally uploaded by sanyam.
Shot from a moving car, single raw exposed to 4 variably exposed TIFF’s, processed and tonemapped with Photomatix.

Nagarjuna Sagar Dam [HDR], originally uploaded by sanyam.
The sight was grand with 22 out of 26 gates being open. The banks became beaches all of a sudden with hundreds of local people flocking to get a closer view.

It was so misty even at such a distance that i had to wipe the lens filter after every shot.

Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, originally uploaded by sanyam.

Steering thru the Greens [HDR], originally uploaded by sanyam.

This is an HDR version of the original pic which was uploaded earlier.

Building 36, originally uploaded by sanyam.