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I have never tried title cards in a gallery before. I hope that they bring some kind of structure to this gallery. I thought it wise to break the gallery down into several sections.

Yes, this gallery is pictures of Jerusalem, the city holy to three of the world's major religions — which without a doubt explains why so many unholy things have happened there, and keep happening there. Warning: there is a bit of unholiness in this gallery.

The city's Hebrew name is "ירושלים".
The city's Arabic name is "القدس".

The six sections into which I have divided this gallery are as follows:
►Gates
►East Jerusalem
►Within the Old City’s Walls
►From the Old City’s Ramparts
►The Temple Mount
►West Jerusalem

The actual image used in the title cards is a picture of a Jerusalem neighbourhood known as Silwan (سلوان) — at least in Arabic (the neighbourhood has a Palestinian majority), but it is called Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ (כפר השילוח) in Hebrew (there is a small Jewish minority there). Either way, the place is part of Jerusalem these days, and is commonly associated with the Biblical Pool of Siloam — which seems only natural, as the two are right near each other. If the picture looks a bit surreal to you, it has had its colours inverted, so that it is a "negative". Rest assured that brown skies are not the norm in the Middle East.

The "typeface" – if it is worthy of the term – is the balloon writing that I have used on and off since I was a child, only here, the letters were composed in frames so as to be comparable in size. Many letters that share features were created using letters already created as a base — F and L, for example, both derived from E. Yes, the set includes all 26 letters, even ones not used in this gallery, but they are capitals only. There are some punctuation marks (you see an apostrophe in this gallery) but no numeric figures. It has a name: Epsilon. It only has that name, though, because the first file that I saved when making it was called Alpha — short for alphabet, but then I called subsequent files, as the face developed, Beta, Gamma, and then Delta. The finished version, being the fifth file, was therefore labelled Epsilon. So Epsilon it is.

Anyway, here's hoping that anybody who drops by finds this gallery fascinating, amusing, educational or otherwise worthwhile...

Description
I have never tried title cards in a gallery before. I hope that they bring some kind of structure to this gallery. I thought it wise to break the gallery down into several sections.

Yes, this gallery is pictures of Jerusalem, the city holy to three of the world's major religions — which without a doubt explains why so many unholy things have happened there, and keep happening there. Warning: there is a bit of unholiness in this gallery.

The city's Hebrew name is "ירושלים".
The city's Arabic name is "القدس".

The six sections into which I have divided this gallery are as follows:
►Gates
►East Jerusalem
►Within the Old City’s Walls
►From the Old City’s Ramparts
►The Temple Mount
►West Jerusalem

The actual image used in the title cards is a picture of a Jerusalem neighbourhood known as Silwan (سلوان) — at least in Arabic (the neighbourhood has a Palestinian majority), but it is called Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ (כפר השילוח) in Hebrew (there is a small Jewish minority there). Either way, the place is part of Jerusalem these days, and is commonly associated with the Biblical Pool of Siloam — which seems only natural, as the two are right near each other. If the picture looks a bit surreal to you, it has had its colours inverted, so that it is a "negative". Rest assured that brown skies are not the norm in the Middle East.

The "typeface" – if it is worthy of the term – is the balloon writing that I have used on and off since I was a child, only here, the letters were composed in frames so as to be comparable in size. Many letters that share features were created using letters already created as a base — F and L, for example, both derived from E. Yes, the set includes all 26 letters, even ones not used in this gallery, but they are capitals only. There are some punctuation marks (you see an apostrophe in this gallery) but no numeric figures. It has a name: Epsilon. It only has that name, though, because the first file that I saved when making it was called Alpha — short for alphabet, but then I called subsequent files, as the face developed, Beta, Gamma, and then Delta. The finished version, being the fifth file, was therefore labelled Epsilon. So Epsilon it is.

Anyway, here's hoping that anybody who drops by finds this gallery fascinating, amusing, educational or otherwise worthwhile...