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    I've been on smugmug for years, but am finally fed up with it.
    I have 2 needs, first I need to post a large number of photos as I'm a "fishing story" writer to support my fishing habit in the summer. I always tell the people I take photos of they can download their own pics if they like. If I'm going to get charged like at smugmug I'd like them to pay a minimal fee to help me offset the cost. If it's free to post I'm not sure I care if they have to pay. Is Flicker the best?

    I'd also like to start a "more serious" site where I display my best photos to refer people to (my portfolio if you will). My goal is to have my own site within a year but need to get started this fall and doubt I will have it constructed by then.

    thanks for you comments and hope this was the correct place to post this.
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    Best would be a custom site designed to your needs and specifications. I don't think popular free or mass photo sharing sites and 'serious' belong together :)

    Flickr, Picasa web, Photobucket, and many others are free. To me, Flickr seems the quickest with the most options offered for their free or paid service. Picasa is too unrefined. Photobucket, while looking the best to me, is too slow and doesn't provide any way that I've found to restrict or disable some of their 'features'.

    Many hosting providers offer automated ways to install photo gallery software such as Coppermine or Gallery2 that will allow mass uploading, sharing, and display of as many photos as you like. It usually just takes a few minutes from a control panel to get started. Set your options once installed and start uploading photos. This is what I used to use.
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    I have to agree with Chris, in that the mass photo sharing sites and "serious" don't belong together and I'm a Flickr user.

    Just a little of my history so you know why I say that. Several years ago I was a serious pursuer of wildlife, non-avian, on film, basically relocated to an area with nothing available to shoot but avian, and I've no time for travel. I started missing everything that's related to being in the outdoors, so I jumped into digital at the consumer level after a ten year hiatus. Flickr was a place to basically dump photos where friends and family that live thousands of miles away could take a look. Fast forward to today, I now take my avian photography very serious, and have moved on to pro gear and am improving on every outing, thanks in large part to BPN and the fact I hate doing anything half-way. Although it will always be a hobby for me and a stress relief mechanism, if I ever find myself stressing over photography related items I'll quit again.

    Now that I am taking the "hobby" seriously I will be moving away from Flickr, although it still might be a place to dump photos of things that the family wants to see, but FB works pretty good for that too. Mainly because I do want to be taken seriously, but also know that I'm not in this to gain fame or fortune. There are some very good photographers that use Flickr, but you do have to wade through a lot to find them and the use is always secondary to a custom site.

    The new site, 500px looks to be the type of site I'll move to very soon, and you can connect it to your own domain name. This is geared toward high quality photos and there are a lot of top photographers using that site now and several people predict it will be a huge success. Hopefully it will not turn into a dumping ground in the future, if it does then it will be equal to the rest.

    All that said, Flickr has it's place, and from the social side I've met several people there that have pointed me to locations that I otherwise would have never known about. It is what it is, depends on your goals.

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    Stan, you might find Zenfolio.com worth checking out. They have three levels of service starting at $25/yr. https://secure.zenfolio.com/zf/signup/plans.aspx

    Feel free to check out my site (below), as an example. Lots of custom options.

    Craig

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