I have been trying to select one of the myriad online photo repositories so that when I keep messing around with the site I don’t have to lose all the pictures that I’ve shared. I wanted to avoid paying a fee if I could, but that proved to be a little more difficult than I originally thought.

Derin did a series on his old site (he has since moved to wordpress.com) regarding the many options out there. Almost all of them – if you wanted to use them for free – had a glaring flaw. Snapfish was cool, but you could only share photos by emailing special links to people. Flickr is very nice, but you are limited to only three separate albums – not good for organizing! Many of the others – photobucket, etc. – are visual train-wrecks. Linking to my pictures almost gave me a headache as by brain tried to sort through the muddled ads and garbage. AND my pictures didn’t actually start until about 3/4 the way down the page!

I was nearly resigned to pay for Flickr Pro when Marcellus the Photographer pointed me to Ringo.com. I think this is going to be the winner – at least for now. The user interface very clean for one of the free sites. At least there is a chance that the albums are the first thing you are going to see! I only have one test album up with a couple pictures now, but I’ll keep you posted as it starts to get more populated:

http://www.ringo.com/photos/albums.html?memberId=166175250

Oh yea, I guess I threw in a video from youtube as well. Caution – it may stir up some bad feelings from the past