Advice on slideshows

Hi All,
So im now developing another site and i need to display a photo gallery. I have it in my head to have slices, rectangular in shape of several pictures that are positioned in the middle of the page, that fade in and out, all at different times. Can anyone advise me on the best slideshow function to use for this?
Also, would i be right in thinking the way to do this would be to have a sideshow for each slice/picture element. That way i can adapt the timing to be different for each. If that all makes sense?!
All help appreciated!

jQuery Cycle 2 is probably the easiest to implement, it also has some nice features and good documentation to get you going...
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/

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