Slick santos

Hello everybody,

I just checked out this cool site http://www.sksantos.com/
and was wondering if anybody knew how he achieved the transition between images. The images turn white but its almost as if they bleach themselves with the highlights of the images becoming blindingly bright.

It also brings me to a more fundamental question. What is the best way to display a lot of images through flash. I have so far always loaded each of them in as individual swfs so they can load individually. However they seem to load fairly slowly (slower than those mentioned above) even though they are smaller and of far less quality than images like those seen on sk santos website.

thanks for any feedback.