Image hosting on Flickr vs Adobe Lightroom’s Flash output

In recent weeks I’ve been trying out the demos of Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture. Lightroom’s ease of use wins my vote by some distance over Aperture’s resource hungry and surprisingly unintuitive offering. One other really attractive feature is Lightroom’s gallery output, its competitor does a serviceable and easy to manipulate job, but the Flash functionality is very elegant and attractive to behold.

I choose to output my pictures to these galleries hosted on my site rather than upload them to my Flickr account for that very reason - Lightroom’s presentation is vastly more attractive and easier to browse than Flickr’s. I really don’t like the way you have to click small thumbnails to view a slightly larger version and then click the tiny ‘view all sizes’ link above an image to view the largest size. I equally dislike the ‘view slideshow’ mode which shows only relatively small versions of images and outside the dark background is the white page. It’s that white page - along with all the screen clutter on the non-slideshow pages - that I dislike most of all:

Admittedly, by publishing privately, I fail to benefit from the social aspect, but oddly enough, I really don’t miss that - what I primarily want from a photo site is the ability to display my pictures in an appropriate way.

My photos can be found here if you fancy a gander.