"Most recent" & "most viewed" pages

This is probably a way to do this already, but I couldn't find it anywhere on this site. I want to set up two new pages (more like pseudo-albums) in my gallery: one for the most recent pictures, and one for the most viewed. The "most recent" is higher in my priorities.

Is there a way to mess with the imageblock module to achieve this?
Or maybe it could be as simple as pulling all of the gallery images, giving them a "date" sort order, and displaying, say, 15 images per page (obeying permissions, of course)...... although I really have no idea if that's possible or how to go about it if it is.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

And I hardly know any php (just enough to mess something up with), so if it involves using it, I'd also appreciate some details.

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catnip----
I use http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:User_Contributions
view down to the Modules section to the 'Updates/HorsePunchKid' line.
My site uses a modification of an older version of his module and shows
the 36 most recently updated images. You're on your own for the most
viewed thingummy, I don't go in for that sort of thing as bots pretty
well completely invalidate the so-called hits intelligence.
----best wishes, Robert

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