Photo site with AdSense on it

Is this possible?

[altius]

I read Google doesn't like its ads being shown on sites with lots of photos and little or 0 other content... can't recall why, but I think it was due to potential copyright problems.
I have a project that sounds like this: create a site with photos ( I will take the pics ) from the place where I live. It's a wonderful place, not discovered yet. I'll take as many pics and possible and group them together on categories. I intend to keep the comments short ( 20-30 words ) so people can focus on looking at pics.
Do you think I have a slight chance to have AdSense on these pages? Thank you for your answers.

[jetteroheller]

Many of my new created pages are photo reportages

About 20 to 60 words description, one big photo 600x450

[altius]

Wow that was quick!
Thank you jetteroheller for your answer! And are the ads successfull on these pages?

[jetteroheller]

I have my own press card and I am traveling to interesting fairs and visit interesting projects.

This reportages are successfull. It's only not predictable what a photo reportage will bring. This can vary for the same number of pages in the range 1:5

So when I make 10 reportages, it pays by higher revenues the expenses in several month.

I make also photo reportages from my family vacations to make them business expenses. But in this area, I am less successfull and I hope to have at last enough income from this to argument them successfull as business expenses. Here I am more in the range of several years until the ad channels watching the income from the travel pages has collected the expenses.

[GoldenHammer]

It is fine with Adsense, but the CTR and earning is far much poor than context rich article pages.

[jetteroheller]

much poor than context rich article pages

Also a photo reportage can be context rich.
It depends on the photos at what can be written about them

[ken_b]

jetteroheller has it right based on my experience.

Photo pages like you describe with relatively little text may draw lower paying clicks, but if you get enough of them it adds up.

But if you go this route, be sure to put your website url in the photos. Photos get copied and republished all the time. It's easier to label them and turn them into free ads for your site than to constantly be trying to stop the copying.

It also generates a bit of traffic for you :)

[altius]

Agreed, ken_b.
I'll probably label all the pics with a "copyright"
+ name of the site or at least with the url.
Thank you for the advice.

[europeforvisitors]

Also a photo reportage can be context rich.
It depends on the photos at what can be written about them

It depends even more on the audience. Depending on the topic, a photo gallery may attract people with different interests and intentions than text-heavy editorial content does. For example, a photo gallery about Paris or London may attract readers who are planning trips, but it will also bring in a lot of armchair travelers and kids who are working on school geography projects. (My own photo galleries have terrible AdSense CTR and eCPM, compared to what I earn from travel-planning articles and resource pages, and I'm sure they don't contribute much to affiliate sales, either. But that's okay, because they don't cost much to produce and they make the site more useful to my readers.)

[FrostyMug]

i have picture-rich pages on my site. click-through will be low, even if there's a decent amount of text next to pictures. Plus, you'll get most of your visits from image searches, and those visitors do not convert well.