Six Revisions

Some fantastic examples there, I especially like Alley Pfannkuchen’s site. I think now CSS3 is creeping in and we can use transparency with just using code, full photo sites are becoming more popular and will very quickly be trending!

moabi

very nice article…

Askar Sabiq

fantastic, but full photo sites break the bandwidth..

TomPier

great post as usual!

Inspirationfeed

Nice collection!

Ed

I’d have to say it’s a great collection. I read a lot of these “lists” each day for inspiration and most of the time, it’s recycled garbage, but I’d have to say this post showing the usage of photography as the basis of your Web site design is great.

Matthew Heidenreich

some great examples. Thanks.

nacho279

Excellent post! first time here but… not last! congrats!

Heather Villa

You are right on the money with this one. I have seen some really great blogs with some not so great photos and it really just kills the impact of what you are reading.

Gavin Barrett

See http://jabberdust.ca
Another example of a big picture approach to web design.

Kyle Pouliot

I respectfully disagree about “full photo sites breaking bandwidth.” There are exporting and optimization methods where you can decrease file size and present large photos as a div background.

Claudia

So lovely!
I like this showcase, makes me think twice about the use of photos in some websites I have to manage!

Thanks =)

Erik

This websites are very beautiful, but only for default resolutions!

Pim

Great showcase! I think using photos is a powerful way to be fresh and personal. It brings more life into your website.

Thanks for this inspiring post

Jesseca

I spent about more than 5 minutes browsing at these impressive websites. Thank you so much for inspiring!

Alex Flueras

Photography and web design goes so well together and these examples clearly shows it. Great article.

larry

Kyle you are one percent correct. Full photo breaks nothing! I have used JS that easily makes it wok great without a crawling issues. Great post and very inspirational. Always try to break typical thought with great design and GREAT coding. The two can go hand and hand!

larry

Ok 99% plus 1% = 100% LOL

Webdesign Geneve, Too Pixel

Hey thanks for featuring one of our creations! (cf. Arnbäck Training)

Yojen

Using photos as a design element is great but using a big search zone in a web design is great too. See http://yojen.com/ share your emotions as an good alternative to breaking bandwidth with a call to action for search. What does Google? Other examples are welcome!

Walter

Nice collection! It’s nice to see that broadband has had a huge impact on webdesign. A couple of years back we preferred tiny pictures in order to improve the site’s speed. With Google now honouring quick website speed we may go back and reduce images again…

Lee

Some of these look amazing, great inspiration.

baaz

Great article!

I think we can add this site :)
http://www.lesgalantes.com

WebDesignerDelhi

@ Walter : Ya quick website is good but if your site doesn’t attract the visitors then what is its use .. so i definitely go up with this post .. great work

Theo

Great inspiration source ! “One picture is worth ten thousand words”

Adrian

OK, one more site to add to the list :) http://citytag.com.au

pimeo

Most of these web sites can be seen on http://www.cssmania.com
A very good web site which includes what is made of better in web site last generation. A good resource to have for the persons who looks for of the inspiration.

Good post.

Michel-Ange

May 9th, 2010

This website uses also pictures for its design : http://www.le-bk.fr

Jill C

Some great inspiration here! Definitely some unique uses of imagery!!! Thanks for the great post!

Mark James

Great collection of websites!

Maverick

these websites really look beautiful. great impact.

Dzinepress

as my experience most of these kind websites design in flash, because static website may heavy due to these kind of hi-res images which are using as background, but you sharing really beautiful inspirations. thanks

robert

WoW, Nice…Very Nice Article and some Great Inspiration

McConnell Group

I have been thinking of doing a large picture background for a real estate website, These are good take aways

Rochelle Dancel

Nice post.

A suggestion for a future post might be a how-to on best practice when it comes to implementing full screen / big photo backgrounds…?

Cheers!

Tim Read: Ripplenet