📸 Photos, Albums & Contests

Uploads, albums, photo contests, and photography clubs.

Uploading

Attach photos to posts, or manage them under My Photos.
Every image is re-encoded on upload: hidden camera metadata (including GPS location) is stripped, and the photo is converted to the modern WebP format — same look, roughly a third smaller, faster for everyone on slow connections.
PNG and JPEG both work as input; large images are resized to a sensible maximum.

Organize photos into shared albums — a trip, a party, a pet's greatest hits — and friends can browse them from your profile.

Any member can host a contest around a theme. Contests run in three phases: open (one entry per member — you can swap or withdraw yours), voting (one vote each, changeable, never for your own entry), and closed (most votes wins the 🏆).
The host advances the phases, so every contest moves at its host's pace.

Each day, the best-voted contest photo becomes the site-wide Photo of the Day. No committee — your votes in contests are the votes that count.

Join or start a photography club to share camera tips: a technique note, an example photo, and the settings it was shot at.
Upload the example photo and the settings chips fill in by themselves — camera, lens, f-stop, shutter, ISO, focal length are read from the picture and shown to you first, to edit or clear. Your location is never read; as everywhere on MyWBS, it's stripped from the photo before saving.
Mark good tips 💡 helpful, talk shop in the darkroom chat, and the club owner can open an audio lounge.