I gave up on those photo sharing sites years ago. For less than $5 per month I have my own domain hosted by Go Daddy with 10Gb of disk space.
There are other advantages as well like unlimitd email accounts, FTP access, etc....
You can even have an awesome home page like this:
http://www.monkeybutler.com
Or put up cool programs like this:
http://www.monkeybutler.com/valu.html
You could even run your own forum if you wanted to!
Kidding aside, my work now blocks most email attachments that contain images but they haven't caught on to FTP so I use the hosting account almost like a portable hard drive. Anything I upload from home I can grab from the orifice if I want. My daughter who is off to school has her own FTP account where she uploads pictures and I can download whenever I want. Works great for me.