Need Recommendation for On-line photo storage

[584ASM]

Fellow Scouters - I like to hear about your experiences/suggestions for on-line digital photo storage/sharing services. Our 10-year old troop is looking for a means to collect our history via digital photos. As you can well imagine, it is very easy with just a couple adult shutterbugs on a summer camp-out to easily shoot a 1000+ pictures. Features I would like to see are thump-nail review options, photo albums, and perhaps most importantly, privacy which most certainly means to me that the serivce does not reserve the right to sell/use the photos in any way. Privacy could also mean that we might need to limit the access to the photos. Can I please hear from you regarding suggestions? Thank you

[Scoutfish]

Does your troop/ pack/ den not have it's own web site?

You could upload all the photos for your whole (registered) troop/ pack/ den group to see,rate and comment on - but only allow uploading or removal by admin staff or the web master.

If you do not have a site, http://www.mypack.us/ will create a site just for you.

[Knot Head]

We use the free site shutterfly.com and are happy with it

[kenk]

I've used http://www.smugmug.com for a number of years for my own personal photos. They are NOT FREE. There is a yearly fee, but that means there is no limit to the number of pics, you don't have to worry about whether they'll be there in the future, there are no adds anywhere, you get great security - from hiding the site to passwords, and now, with their premium service, you can even upload videos.

 

If you want I can give you a code that takes some amount of money off the first year's service, but it also gives me a small amount off my year's service. I'm not including it here because I don't want you to think I'm promoting it for my own benefit. I'm not. I'd rather have you experience it and see how good it is than for me to get some $ savings. Its that good.

 

When you go to http://www.smugmug.com, click on Learn More, and look for the "Why Pay?" tab.

 

The only thing I wish smugmug had that it doesn't currently have is a slick easy way to download fullsize pics from entire galleries. There is a way to do it referred to here:

 

http://www.smugmug.com/help/download-photos

 

and it works quite well and is really pretty easy, but I wish it was built into smugmug.