I just helped my friend Katrina build a website for her business Silver Selkie Studio, it's all dynamic and Ruby on Rails, with gorgeous graphics from my mom, Fern Ness.
Rails was perfect for this project, I used attachment_fu for doing the pictures, the more I use attachment_fu, the more I like it. This time I didn't use S3 storage, but instead used a local file store, and that worked great.