I think it is a great improvement because you removed some of the less impressive images. I am in the process of doing the same thing and it can be painful. The overall effect is far better.
I don't really like spawning a new window for each gallery. I spent 30 seconds on the new window looking for a link to go back to the homepage. Generally you should only open a new window when you are sending your viewer to a new website.
* I don't like the logos from W3C and Firefox.
* In your intro text, you mention your gold buttons, although I think you said you got rid of them.
* Some of your images look a bit over-processed:
My Webpagehttp://www.myrsphoto.com/Galleries/Oklahoma/slides/568.html http://www.myrsphoto.com/Galleries/Oklahoma/slides/10.html I would be more gentle with the unsharp mask and contrast enhancement.
* You have some significant problems with fonts and font sizes. If you are using different fonts and sizes deliberately, it isn't working.
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It appears that you are mixing verdana and arial with different sizes. If I had to guess, I would think you are struggling with consistently applying your styles in your editor. Pick one font for text and, if you must, another for headings. More than two fonts on a page is very difficult to make look good. You used a non-serifed font for your paragraph text and then a serifed font for your headings. You have it backwards. While there are no hard and fast rules in typesetting, this is one rule you probably shouldn't break.
Non-serifed: Arial, Verdana, Geneva
Serifed: Times, Times New Roman, Georgia
Typically, serifed fonts are used to improve readability in paragraphs while non-serifed fonts are used to improve readability in titles or lists.
I really like your Alaska Photographs. In my opinion, they stand out as your best. I
like this one. I would include only one of the Exit Glacier, Kenai Fijords images. They are a bit repetitive.