Feature Gallery Photo on other site pages

I'm a bit stumped on this... here's what I'm trying to accomplish.

I have a Photo Gallery that I upload photos to and select from a category list that the photo is related to (gallery_category) using a list

Get options from database
Section Tablename: gallery_categories
Use this field for option values: name
Use this field for option labels: name.

I'd like to feature specific photos on the home page of my website, so I created a (feature_gallery_category) which pulls the same records from the:

Get options from database
Section Tablename: gallery_categories
Use this field for option values: name
Use this field for option labels: name.

In the Home Page section within the CMS I select the category associated with the photos I'd like to display on the home page of my website. I know I could hard code this, but I need it to be dynamic so as new Categories are added in the future, they become available in the drop down list. The code below doesn't work and I'm certain off track... can someone provide some guidance to get this feature working?

<?php if ($home_pageRecord['feature_gallery_category']==$galleryRecord['gallery_category']): ?>
<div class="photo">
<?php foreach ($galleryRecords as $record): ?>
        <?php foreach ($record['gallery_photo'] as $upload): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $upload['_link'] ?>" title="<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?> <?php echo $upload['info2'] ?>">
<img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>" alt="<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?>" width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>" height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight'] ?>" /></a>
<?php endforeach ?><?php endforeach ?>
<!-- /photo --></div>
<?php endif ?>