Photo Hosting Sites?

[chomiji]

So I think I mentioned that I had bought a digital camera. This was, like, way past due: I'd been meaning to do so for years, and I have traditionally been the member of the family who takes the pix at get-togethers.

I certainly intend to make prints of the best ones and give them out to the relatives, as I always have, but it would probably be a good idea to have a place to put them online as well. I know there are free sites for these, and I know most of their names from seeing other people use them, but I might actually be willing to pay money for mine, given my traditional role in our extended family (and how much I usually get into it).

Are there sites that allow you to vary the the security level by album? So I could post things I don't care about open to everyone, and pictures of the minor children of kidnapper-fearing relatives locked, so that only the people to whom I send the password could view them? Are there sites that people have used, and would like to recommend?

Thank you thank you!

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I agree: Flickr seems to be the most well-designed and nice-looking of the photo sites. I often use Photobucket.com for hosting random web pictures, but they tend to the utilitarian.

[chomiji]

Heh - the other advantage of Flickr for me is that the firewall at work doesn't seem to block it the same way it mostly blocks photobucket - maybe because you can actually use Flickr for photo research. I'll have to heck it out. Thanks!

[chomiji]

Sounds good ... I'll have to try it out. Thanks!

[dana1witch.livejournal.com]

I'll add another heads-up for Flickr. I'm using it myself and I'm pretty happy with it. It's also convenient if you want to re-post pictures in your blog here, for example.

[chomiji]

Sounds like it's unanimous! I'll have to check out Flickr. Thanks!

[b3nitora.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Photobucket!

[chomiji]

But do they have the album-by-album security features that I asked about?

(My office partially blocks Photobucket - a lot of the time, at work, I can't view things that poeple post there.)