Gallery is an online photo album. You can install it yourself on your webserver, and it will allow you to upload pictures and have others make comments on them. And while I wouldn't swear to it, it looks to my untrained eye that even such lumniaries in the "post family pictures online" game as Ofoto are based on Gallery.

It is written in PHP and is extremely customizable. The website for Gallery is http://gallery.menalto.com

Memory is a gallery
scenes and faces cramming
the long corridor’s white walls
My mother : a Gainsborough,
very detailed, very deft, very sure -
very flat.
Vermeer light makes Dad golden,
while my brother, inevitably,
is a Munch (although, as I recall,
it was always me
Who screamed)

Lowry painted you, though,
featureless as you move
through a grimy , smoke-palled landscape:
you, me, the eighties,
hazy unkept promises,
hints of unrealised hopes,
deliberately blurred into indistinction.
Intellectually, I know you have
eyes, skin, hair, teeth;
I know their colours
(blue, tan, brownish, not-quite white)
remember that you often used to
blink, and occasionally
to bite. I know all this.
I have not forgotten your face.

But you do not wear it here.
I think I need to smudge or
I could never look at you
and then look away.

Gal"ler*y (?), n.; pl Galleries (#). [F. galerie, It. galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr. galer to rejoice. Cf. Gallant, a.]

1.

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

2.

A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

3.

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

4. Naut.

A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

5. Fort.

Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.

6. Mining

A working drift or level.

Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.

 

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