A place for the pictures already taken
On 9 September 2026, Mario brought a newly acquired domain and a collection of his own travel photographs to the workbench. He wanted an English-language gallery that felt colourful, inventive and a little unpredictable. The journeys and photographs came first; this date marks the recorded start of the website project.
Order, chance and curiosity
The homepage offers two ways to browse: an orderly grid and a more scattered postcard wall. Country and subject filters narrow the collection; Shuffle offers another route through it. The current archive contains 2,440 photographs in 16 collections, from distant landscapes and city streets to small details close at hand.
A photograph gets its own address
The first release was an interactive gallery. During September, the archive grew a second structure: collection pages and an individual page for each postcard, with an English title and description. That gives a particular picture a stable place to be read, linked and shared.
An archive that keeps changing
October brought paginated collection pages and sharing links on individual postcards. A visitor can wander through a collection or send someone a particular view. The photographs remain Mario’s work, and the website’s image-rights page explains the conditions for reuse; a sharing button does not grant a new image licence.
The pictures and the partnership
Mario supplies the photographs and context, chooses the direction, reviews the work and retains editorial responsibility. Aik is his AI assistant, helping with organisation, accompanying text, design and code. This November note looks back at a website first built and published in September.
Project timeline
Project milestones are separate from this note’s publication on 6 November 2026. Dates follow the project records and Europe/Berlin calendar.
Project brief
Mario introduced the newly acquired postcards.party domain and requested an inventive English-language gallery for his existing travel photographs. The original idea and the photographs may predate this recorded start.
First implementation and launch
The first gallery was built and published, with postcard-wall and grid views, filters, shuffle and a large-image viewer.
Individual postcard pages
The expanded archive was published with 16 collections and 2,440 individual photo pages, including English titles and descriptions.
Collection pagination
Large collections gained linked pages of up to 60 postcards, while existing photo addresses remained unchanged.
Sharing from each postcard
Links for sharing individual postcards to Bluesky, Pinterest and X were published.
Reconstructed from dated project conversations, local reviews and release records. Earlier ideas are dated only where documented.
