RANT
I tried to use wordpress for displaying my photos. There is an addon called NEXTGen Gallery that is supposed to be great for photos. IT sucked. No easy way to display the photo in full resolution. Weird setup, basically, all around useless.
It still looks like the three best ways for me to currently show photos is with Dropbox, Google, My basic pages.
Really, why can’t there be a simple photo display that can be added to my site. I used to use ZenPhoto, but that will not work on the current version of PHP on my website.
UPDATE
-I have tried a bunch of the plug-ins, and none of them worked very well, nor did they do what I wanted. There were a few that looked like they might work, but only the pay version. THEN I found “Justified Gallery”
JUSTIFIED GALLERY allows you to use the normal create gallery option in wordpress, but it displays proper full screen slideshows, and you can zoom in. The only thing lacking, which is why DropBox and Google Photos is so good is that you cannot save whole folders of pics.
UPDATE. 1/2018
Dropbox no longer works for photos. Google pissed me off with weird ways of doing things, although for showing photos right now, they are pretty darned good. Only big issue is longevity without having to reprogram. WordPress is still not great for photos so the only thing left is Smugmug. This works pretty well, although it does a few weird things when you want to zoom in. It can also be put on my SD card on my phone and be used if I don’t have internet. The only thing missing is an app for the PC that works like the phone.
Still, my simple static pages work best for me. The only thing missing with them is a way to show the pages on my phone off line.