Working with photos in Movable Type

There's a whole range of new ways to work with and manage your photos in Movable Type. First, if you're using Flickr to manage your photos, MovableTypeFlickrPhotosets will let you fetch a list of your Flickr photosets to include in your weblog.

To work with photos within Movable Type, you'll want to try MT-PhotoGallery. There's a straightforward set of instructions on the plugin page for integrating the system with your existing Movable Type installation.

If you'd rather work more with Movable Type's built-in functionality, you can follow either of two excellent tutorials from Nicholas Findley and Elise Bauer. There's also a list of photoblog tutorials on the Movable Type wiki which can work as a good starting point for more advanced exploration.

After your photos are online, you might want to let people annotate them in addition to leaving standard weblog comments on your posts. Fotonotes offers a good, open way to annotate JPEG images, and there's starting to be sample code and applications for allowing annotations that's being developed in the weblog community. This seems like a ripe area for connecting web services, so that a blogger could use TypeKey authentication to choose who is permitted to add notes to a photo.

Finally, once you've got the technology worked out, you might be looking for some inspiration. In that case, your best bet is Photoblogs.org. There's over 6000 photo blogs listed, with many of them powered by Movable Type or TypePad.