@pebble it's a little nerdy, but also pretty sick:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39575873/is-there-a-way-to-create-a-simple-static-image-gallery-in-nginx-without-any-thir

i think the second version of the gal.xslt looks best, and the correction of the try_files line is important, but apart from that it works really well! 😅 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯