I saw Geoff Graham had put a neat CodePen together recently with a chequerboard reveal.
I figured I should have a go, so ended up using one of my wife’s photos from our trip to Canada a few years back.
I’m pretty sure this could be worked into a nice hero section somehow with a little more finesse.
However the reveal concept could also be useful elsewhere. A recent project had a gallery which rather than being loaded all at once, or sequentially could make use of this concept to load in randomly.