Photo-editing Techniques
Using GIMP 2.6, I have selected a few of my favorite garden blooms and used a mask to cut out a Cone Flower (and Bee), a 'Cappuchino' Rudbeckia, and a Bachelar Button. I have given each photo, a transparent background and scaled them down. Now I can use them as art decco on any color or image background. In the last example, a Zebrina, a specific darker background was added to show off the light delicate edges.
A more complex technique, is to make composite pictures. In the first large examples below, I have cut out a redwood arbor with two-doves and substituted a new background of a Cascading Peach and blue sky. The second large photo is Wisteria, where I have manipulated the light, the contrast, and added a few degrees of Sharpness (using Picnic) to give more depth to the photo.
Photo Gallery
Another option to display photograghs is to install a Gallery into your website. With several to choose from, I selected the Coppermine Photo Gallery. Installed with a script, all options can be set by the administrator after logging on to the site. In my example gallery there are three levels of users.
I have removed my Coppermine Photo gallery because I have become too busy to manage it and the roving hackers and auto-bot internet preditors are trying to join as members and inject spam and worthless data into my gallery. REMOVED... problem solved.