I think this two column template is what I would like to use for a photo blog, its simplistic nature makes it excellent to showcase content and photographs without any distractions.
The template is based on white with touches of lime green and navy blue borders, just above the header and before the footer stars. The navigational menu is on the top right hand side over the sidebar which are a couple of links that have a lime green underline when a mouse hovers, its quite a nice color.
Just below that is a nice flushed search widget at the top of the sidebar, then you can have your link lists or widgets there as well.
If you take a look at the footer, once again its a three column footer. These footers are quite nice as they can hold a lot of page elements and I see a trend of people using them or creating blogs with a three column footer.
Download the Standard Issue Blogger Template
how and where do I add the links to the pages of the above links (about, contacts)? Thanks