Vertical frame texts in master pages...

Have a book with text and a big section of landscape photographs.
Text is no problem. (Portrait)
Tried to put the captions for the pictures (just below in a conventional way with a formatted list) with 2 methods:
a) reducing the margins until obtain a text area where to flow the captions but the text was placed horizontally (of course...)
b) put 2 threaded vertical text frames in the master page but could not flow the text in the regular pages...

So let's see if I have this right, now.
You've put two text frames on the master spread to hold the captions and rotated each of them ninety degrees counter-clockwise. You've threaded the frame on the left page to the one on the right. The captions are all on one continuous story and you've built in a way to make each caption start in the next frame. Is all of that correct?
Describe what you are doing, in detail, from that point forward, and what happens at the end of each step.

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