Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing much with the #11ty based #photogallery approach yet. Just enough to realize the template I started with isn’t the way I want to go. It puts the image list and metadata in one giant JSON file, and I’d rather use individual markdown files with front matter and the caption/comment/description as the body.
I’ve found a couple of articles that are closer to what I want to do with it, so I may end up basing it on one of those or rolling my own entirely.