Some time ago I stopped using Gallery to post my pictures for a few reasons. One it took effort to resize, upload, and caption my pictures and I got a little lazy. Eventually I was going to run out of space, because I'd have to pay for more and more hosting space to store pictures that are almost never viewed. Also I wasn't satisfied with how accessible my pictures were. Searching is so ubiquitous on the internet now that it's odd to use any application that doesn't have good searching. At some point I went in and used the keywords field in Gallery to note all the people present in a picture. This sort of hack solved part of my problem, but I still wasn't excited about Gallery anymore. Part of me loves messing with PHP and coding, but there's only so much time and sometimes you just want things to work. I decided that I was dumping Gallery.
After some discussion about how to store and share my pictures I decided to go with Flickr. It's a photosharing website with a community approach. It's full of cool features and there's a huge group of people who develop programs/hacks for it. It does cost $25/year but you get unlimited storage, they store originals up to 3.2 MP, a 2 GB monthly upload limit. It's easy to search your pictures or anyone's pictures on Flickr. The really neat features are the tags, notes, and geotagging. I use the notes to mark each person in a picture so that they are searchable later. With geotagging anyone can check the approximate location that the picture was taken. It's neat to go to where you pictures were taken and find the other pictures taken nearby. I even found someone I know randomly on Flickr that way. There's tons more to describe, but the easiest way to tell you about it is just to have you go look at my Flickr page:
http://flickr.com/photos/ramk13/
I spent a lot of time over the last week or two to post the large majority of the pictures that I want to share on Flickr. About 1300 total pictures with 500 of those being family pictures. I took the time to title, tag, note, and geotag the 800 public pictures, and it's easy to search. For example, if you wanted to see all my pictures of Parker you just do a search for Parker and limit it to my photos. You can click on one of the disc golf pictures and see when and where it was taken. And if you don't know who Parker is, mouse over the picture and there'll be note boxes over each person. It's pretty easy to navigate around and find lots of stuff that could interest you with Flickr. It's WAY better than Gallery, and I worth the money I paid so far.