That is an awesome 2008 starter. Great site design and excellent body of work. The thing i don't get: it's easy to use in a linear way forward but backward? No way! I have to use the scrollbar or keyboard arrows. This seems kinda odd to me, sorry.

At this point the question may be allowed: Why NOT use Flash for that?

Awesome photography. Horrible site. It took a while to discover how to navigate the photos, and then once I did there's no way of returning to the left. Forcing a user to do something is never good.

I vote this one down. This is another example of a nice photography site destroyed by crappy navigation. When are these designers gonna learn that web design is not just making thing pretty, they have to be usable too and all this scrolling is making me dizzy.

Same kind of navigation, but with Flash on this photography site: http://www.kevinclarkheadshots.com/

I really like how the navigation makes it a little bit clumsier to navigate back before you have seen an entire series of photos. Why visit this small site if you're not interested in seeing the photos? And having to see an entire series makes for a more complete, contextual experience.

As for the choice of technology, there are many reasons not to use Flash. For one, this choice makes the development more transparent and the techniques used are visible to other developers.

Hm, don't get me wrong - everything would be superb if only there would be a 'clickable' overlap from the previous photo. Would make perfect sense to me clumsy fast-clicker at least. Granted, the contextual experience is an argument.

I actually like the navigation. I love when site challenges me to get out of my little box. Just easely letting my fingers flow across the mousepad on my mac - works perfectly.

I like the way the selected navigation button looks.