I'm going to go there: This is a bad portfolio design, much worse than what you had before. Remove this image viewing system in favor of standard thumbnails and images. You force the user to view your content within your own image viewing system which controls their speed of viewing and the image they see. So in essence,…
This is a big improvement, but there's still so much you can do. Yes, this new background distracts from your content, I'd simply remove it. Nevertheless, it's a neat image. It also breaks and stops halfway down the page. Not sure if that's the intended look but it just looks like a web site bug. You see how you laid out…