It is a well thought out page, The black and grey color scheme is a nice rest on my eyes from the colorful and white on the rest of the site. The black is also helpful for letting the pictures pop. The photos are also well chosen by the editor, beautiful or impacting representations of the week's occurances.
At first I did not understand what the organization of the photos was like but then I noticed two drop-down tabs at the top left: "album" and "keyword." It's a nice way to allow users to narrow down what type of picture they want to see. If a reader is not sure what type of photo they're after and just want to browse through nice pictures, they can scroll underneath the featured photos and find "more photo galleries." Here they can see a selection of about 25 thumbnails with a gallery title. See screenshot below.
screenshot from USAToday.comAnother interesting aspect of their photo gallery is that there are albums that hold series' of photos submitted by the readers. One recent collection is called Picture America: a photo contest where readers got to vote on the winners from a selection by the judges.
One thing that surprised me however is that there are no spaces for reader comments. I think they could definitely increase traffic and user interaction if they could comment on the photos.
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