How to set up a Photography Website? Help Me!

How to set up a photography website using WordPress, that has a portfolio and a blog section?

Don’t be surprised, I am seriously asking for help here.  Sometime you gotta help me too.

I am planning to set up a photography website.  I have the domain, hosting and I know I will be using WordPress.  So the basic understanding is there.  Since I have set up several other websites earlier, so I also know how to install WordPress and other necessary stuff.

What I need?

Everything I mentioned above is true.  What I am not able to understand is how should the site structure look like – I mean from sitemap point of view.  Here is what I have in mind…

1. Make my main domain as my Home Page – say www.anuragbansal.com.  That will be a home page showing latest images in a slider.  There may also be some static content (feed) from the blog section.
2. There will be links to other pages in the menu and one of them will be “blog”.  Should the link be blog.anuragbansal.com or anuragbansal.com/blog???
3. Now when I go to “Blog” section that will be setup like a blog where I can post various articles and update regularly.
4. Rest all pages will most probably be linked to the home page and will be something like anuragbansal.com/portfolio, anuragbansal.com/contact and all.  Is that right???

Question for the experts?

Now the real question I have for the experts out there is, “Do I need to install WordPress two times – one for anuragbansal.com and one for anuragbansal.com/blog.  Or can I just install it once and have all blog posts linked to anuragbansal.com/blog?  Please help.  This is the main point I am kind of lost.

I really appreciate your help.  I know Internet is the best place to ask such a question.  Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that before I pull the plunger someone will try to answer my query.  I have also put this question on Quora, if you wanna post the answer over there.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Anurag Bansal