In my humble opinion (I'm always struggling with my own designs...):
First thing... the colour. For me goth=black, not white...
Second thing... for me your first site is much easier to navigate with the menu on the left.
And with the second site I noticed strange thing... When I clicked on some links and clicked 'back' to the main preview page the browser resized automatically to 800x600 (I think).
BTW, I really like your style of photography
