Recommend me a picture sharing service

In My Humble Opinion
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I just took a scenic trip with about 20+ friends, and almost all of us took pictures. Several of us took more than a thousand shots over four days. It would be nice to have a way to share them with each other, and with select other people, but not necessarily the public.

Picasa (Google) and Flickr (Yahoo) are two of the most popular such services, but I haven’t used either, except when visiting links provided by other Dopers here.

They seem to have similar features, but I’d like your views of the pros and cons of them or any other similar sites. Being free and free of advertising are obvious top priorities, as is simplicity of use.

We also need high storage capacity. I shot about 7 GB of pictures myself, and although I’m obviously not going to upload them all, some of us might exceed the 1 GB limit at Picasa.

Another feature that would be interesting is if we can all upload pictures into an anonymous section so that we could have a photo contest in which pictures are judged without knowing who took them. Do any of these services offer something like this?

I’m more interested in hearing from people who can compare the plusses and minuses of two or more different services than from users of only one saying it’s good.

Thanks.

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My wife swears by the Clark Photo site (www.clarkcolor.com). They’ll let you upload scads of photos in the hopes you’ll order prints.

Since you’re all coordinating pictures anyway, being able to order prints might be a good thing.

The ability to “judge” prints is surely out with them but I assume your primary reason is to be able to aggregate photos from all the members of your party.

Each can upload to an “album” and then send the url to the album to the other members of the trip.’

ETA: They now have “group rooms” which’ll let you all upload your photos to a single shared “room”.

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I have always used photobucket. They just recently started to have ads pop up, but never had any problems with them.

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I use SmugMug . I have ~20GB of photos on there now. You can lock it down as much as you need to so that only family can access it, if you want.