I got a little idea towards my design on my web page, I am using as few colors as possible to get the most attention to the Photos.

I wanted to check if it was possible to do the Google map black and white, I did not find any thing about something like that. However I found it is possible to put an overlay over the Map.

see here.
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/08/draggable-markers-and.html

var tilelayer = new GTileLayer(new GCopyrightCollection(), 0, 17); tilelayer.getTileUrl = function(tile, zoom) { // A more interesting tile server would do something with the numbers // tile.x, tile.y and zoom. return "http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/white_map_tile.gif"; }; tilelayer.getOpacity = function() {return 0.5;} map.addOverlay(new GTileLayerOverlay(tilelayer));
My thoughts would be to put a transparent black image instead of the white in this example.

On another point similar to this. To be able to change the background color of the Google maps, to change it to black or any other color then this gray default color.

see here for example.
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/07/wacky-wednesday-change-background-color.html

GMapOptions.backgroundColor
just 2 thoughts in my process of finishing of my web page.