Penny de Los Santos is a freelance photojournalist based in Austin, Texas. Her international work revolves around food and culture.
On her professional site, pennydelossantos.com, photo content is king. The main images are displayed large and loud, while links to other pages (Portfolios, Bio, Contact and Blog) are quiet in small, gray font. This display immediately sets the tone for the site – photos first, words second. It’s easy for the viewer to concentrate on the images and not be distracted by smaller navigational details. However, when needed, these buttons are easy to find. They’re also displayed in intuitive, logical places along the top of each page.
If you choose the Portfolio tab, you’ll have a choice of Travel/Food, Food, Portraits, Single Images and Tejanos Project. Once a selection is made, you have a choice as to how to view the dozens of images. The main image is large, while there are active thumbnails on the right side of the main. You can choose to view the content as a slideshow (which has the added feature of a small circle that completes itself, counting the time for each image as it’s shown). Or you can choose to navigate using previous or next arrows in the bottom right corner. You can also move the mouse through the thumbnails to make a selection.
So far, no dead-ends. Each page has an option for returning to the home page or other content. The one criticism I would offer is the slight delay in loading the page.
Otherwise, the site is clean, vibrant and easy to navigate. It makes me hungry -- for food and travel.
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