There are more than 600 photos of our trip to Mali and Niger (including over 50 desktops). I'm sorry we didn't do a better job of editing them. Anyway, they're organized in such a way that you can easily skim the surface, and drill down into any area which seems particularly interesting.
The pictures are organized into four "levels":
- The trip page lists the areas we went to, showing two representative pictures for each area. Clicking on a picture opens a page for that country.
- Each area page lists all the places we went within that area, showing two pictures for each place. Clicking on a picture opens a page for that place.
- Each place page shows all the pictures for that place in a fairly small size. Clicking on a picture opens a page showing just that picture.
- Each picture page shows just one picture in a fairly large size. Clicking on a picture goes on to the next picture for that place, but clicking on the last picture for a place goes to the next place page. (Unfortunately, clicking on a movie doesn't work -- you have to click the right arrow above it.)
If you have a slow connection, open the place pages you're interested in, and just scroll to see all of the pictures. Click on any that look interesting to see them closer up.
If you have a fast connection and a large display, it's possible to see all of the pictures in a large size simply by clicking on the topmost picture displayed on each page that comes up. (If you have a small display, such as a laptop, the large pictures won't entirely fit without scrolling.)
Every page has links shown at the top to let you jump back to the trip page, the country page, or the place page.
Sidebars
Many of the pictures have been hidden on sidebar pages which aren't part of the main flow. The only way to find them is to click a link like "Inside the Djenne market..." which appears at the end of a caption on a picture. After you look at the photos on the sidebar page, there'll be a link to return to the photo following the one whose caption led you to the sidebar.
Visiting a "sidebar" preserves the same style of navigation you're using: if you access a sidebar from a "place page", you'll see the sidebar page; if you access it from a page with a large picture, you'll see the first large picture in the sidebar.
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