feat: bring back photos page

[jaspermayone]

Closes #102

Brings back the /photos page as a responsive masonry gallery of 133 photos.

Note

The layout reference tweet linked in the issue (x.com/sorenblank/status/1979079948204757089) has been deleted with no archive available, so the layout follows the site's existing conventions: a CSS-columns masonry grid (1/2/3/4 columns by breakpoint) with rounded corners and blur-up placeholders. Happy to rework if you can describe Soren's layout.

What's included

• Optimized images: originals (428MB of JPGs, recovered from git history) converted to metadata-stripped WebP, max 1600px, quality 80 → 26MB total. Avoids the slow-load and serverless-size problems that got the old page removed ([BUG] /photos page takes a suuuuuper long time to load #50, Vercel Build Failing due to serverless function too large #51).
• EXIF on hover: camera, focal length, aperture, shutter, ISO, and date shown in a hover overlay. Extracted at import time into a checked-in JSON (src/lib/photo-exif.json) — no runtime EXIF parsing. GPS data is deliberately excluded, and the shipped WebPs are fully stripped (originals contain location coordinates).
• Shuffled order: the page renders dynamically and shuffles the gallery per visit.
• Import pipeline: bun scripts/import-photos.ts [source-dir] converts new originals, extracts EXIF, and regenerates the src/lib/photos.ts manifest (static imports → automatic dimensions + blur placeholders).
• SEO: ImageGallery JSON-LD, OG metadata, sitemap entry, /slashes entry, and a link from the home page's "photography" mention.

flowchart LR
    A[Original JPGs] -->|"magick: strip, resize 1600px, webp q80"| B[public/images/photography/*.webp]
    A -->|"magick identify: EXIF minus GPS"| C[src/lib/photo-exif.json]
    B --> D[src/lib/photos.ts manifest]
    C --> D
    D -->|static imports + blur placeholders| E[/photos page/]

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Verification

• next build and bun run lint pass
• All 133 images verified loading on the local production build and the Vercel preview (Playwright scroll-through, zero failed requests, zero broken images)
• Per-visit shuffle verified on the production build

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