How to create a an image gallery with a short description below each image
Creating an Image Gallery Of images in nodes. 


Add a content type to be used for the image gallery.
Add the image field
Add one node per image with the description in the body field.
Create a view of the type content
Add the fields Title, Image, Body (In this order so that they are displayed in that order itself
set the format to grid. 


Now when you visit the page you should see the gallery as you wanted.