I’ve been trying to decide how to host my photos, since I haven’t been 100% satisfied with Gallery 2. I was initially opposed to using Flickr because I wanted my photos to be well integrated into my site, but I started playing with it a couple nights ago. And of course it turns out there’s a whole slew of Wordpress plugins for Flickr, including fAlbum, which I’ve been testing out a little and so far it seems awesome.
Flickr even has most of the features I’ve wanted in a photo-hosting solution, and it seems they have a great feedback loop/quick release cycle to boot. I was just complaining to Kenny yesterday that I couldn’t organize my photo sets into uber-sets (albums and sub-albums, in Gallery terminology), and today they released the feature (they call the uber-albums “Collections”). Sweet.
Now I just need them to give me the flexibility to choose which photo in my set is the “highlight,” as I used to be able to do in Gallery, instead of automatically using the most recent photo as the highlight.
I’ll unveil my Flickr page in a few days, when I’m finished uploading my thousands of pictures. If you really want to see it beforehand, it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Hello. I found your Flickr site and was immediately impressed. Congrats on the Blog, the photos, and the whole thing. My 2-yr Flickr anniv. is coming up and I think it’s great. But like you, I keep the domain and blog separate from the Flickr. Since I use a Mac, I use iPhoto to make photo web pages on my blog, Lafayette Life. Well, ciao. See you on YouTube. (isn’t everyone?)
If you are interested in using flickr, you might check out the new Vista/WPF application available for uploading. It’s by thirteen23 and is called Nostalgia. It’s just a proof of concept (I had to restart once) but it seems to work fairly well.