One other web service I use for displaying photographs is the
PhotoShelter web portal, which has an elegant interface.
PhotoShelter has a variety of options that you can explore; my
galleries on PhotoShelter are viewed at this home page: http://
www.photoshelter.com/c/leerentz

To explore PhotoShelter, go to http://www.photoshelter.com/index/d

Lee Rentz
lee at leerentz.com


On Mar 13, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Lee Rentz wrote:

> I have found that a blog is a great way to express oneself with
> words and photographs. I use wordpress.com, and there are no costs
> involved because the site is supported by advertising. There are
> many templates to choose from, and there are statistics available
> concerning the number of visitors to each post. The bandwidth
> allowed is enormous, and as long as you make appropriate-sized
> jpegs, the limits should allow you to post for years. If you have
> a lot of friends and acquaintances interested in what you have to
> say, you will get a lot of hits. Alternatively, the tags and
> categories and content will automatically attract a lot of visitors.
>
> If you want a place to post and archive your photographs as full-
> sized jpegs, Flickr.com provides that service for $25 per year.
>
> Lee Rentz
> Shelton, WA
> http://leerentz.wordpress.com
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
>
>> On a related note to the discussion on photo equipment, how/where
>> do you post photos for others to view? Looking at the posts of
>> others, it appears that my two options are to join a photo hosting
>> site like Photobucket or to create a personal website.
>>
>> I like to write, so I am inclined to explore an option which would
>> allow me to post commentary as well as photos. A friend from the
>> motorcycle side of my hobby world suggested creating a blog where
>> I could link in photos from a photo hosting site. My favorite
>> photo sites I have seen on Tweeters are the websites of
>> professional photographers. Are these expensive to start and
>> maintain? How many photos will such a site hold?
>>
>> Feel free to reply privately to me if this tread is too far off
>> topic for Tweeters.
>> Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA.
>>
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