I’ve never really understood “community” photo sites like flickr, and have long since deserted pbase (which I assume inspired flickr) in favour of Gallery G2. I’ve no interest in the community side of things, my photo’s being primarily for friends and family. As such, the only way you can view my photos is by my site. You have to want to view them, rather than by being a virtual voyeur / stalker on the flickr site. I much prefer to host my own photos, making use of the mammoth storage space that ace-host provide.

Offline I use iPhoto to organise my photos. This is Apples photo management equivalent to iTunes and comes complete with albums (which behave like playlists – both dynamic and static), image tagging, and so on. Basically if it’s in iTunes, there’s an equivalent in iPhoto. The only thing that’s been lacking has been a way to link my offline photo gallery to my online gallery.

Now there’s iPhoto to Gallery. The voyeurs amongst you will be happy to know there’s an equivalent for flickr. This little plugin doesn’t track which photo’s in your offline gallery are in which online gallery (there’s a nice feature for the future, perhaps?) What it does do is eliminate some of the work normally required in order to upload photos to G2. Simply highlight the photos you require in iPhoto, choose export, and then instead of exporting to your desktop for use in a 3rd party application, you export directly into your online gallery.