For about a year and half, Fotki.com has hosted more than 1,400 of my digital photos, delivering thousands of page views a day. I've sold a few prints here and there, and I recently received a couple of large prints (16x20 and 24x36) of shots taken with my Canon SD500.

So now's a good time to put Fotki.com under the knife. Here's what I can tell you about the service.

• A $50 annual membership allows for unlimited storage and bandwidth. With digital cameras getting more and more powerful, and original files becoming heftier as a result, it's nice to not have to worry about running out of room or being penalized for popularity.

• The print prices are the cheapest around. This print pricelist compares a lot of major online hosts, and Fotki buries 'em all. An 11x14 print costs only $2.50, a 16x20 is a righteous $8.50 and a 24x36 poster is only $12. Your own poster for 12 bucks. I just got my first and it's so cool. Now if only I had a bigger apartment.

• The homepage has a somewhat competitive "most visited today" list. A lot of Fotki members are addicts, and so I'm sure they get stoked if they see their name in the most-visited column on the right side of the home page. I hit the top spot only once, when I debuted my Contiki Wild Western tour photos. When I plug a substantial gallery in a PK.com post, I'll usually get up on that list somewhere. But only for a day. Usually it's dominated by the same cast of characters: Dave Lindsay's car photos, angelicbear's "tags", LTAH Hair Photos and other shit that I can't believe is so popular.

• The comments section acts as a greatest hits area. The best way to see which photos have made an impression is to check the comments people have left for you. They usually come in two varieties: a) the people who really dig photography, and b) the horn-dogs who comment on the T&A shots.

• People whore themselves out all over the place. Posting multiple entries the testimonials page is cheesy enough, but the vapid guestbook entries people leave just to generate traffic to their own galleries is transparent and lame.

• There are a lot of horny mother fuckers out there. All you have to do is find one member posting T&A shots, check her guestbook and you'll be clicking for an hour on the screen names of people who left messages (and sometimes a risque thumbnail and a password to their protected private shots). Find another member posting T&A shots, check her comments and friends links, and you could be in for an all-day affair. Warning: a lot of these exhibitionists are not in the greatest of shapes.

• There's a lot of great work out there. Most people's photos are absolute shit. All you have to do is refresh the home page a few times to survey what's out there. But every now and then you find something great, like an Antarctica album, a bird over an ocean or any of the best entries from the many Fotki contests. Contests whose results are skewed, BTW, because visitors browse/vote on the entries based on the date they were submitted, which means all the early birds get the worms. Can you believe some douchebag gave me one star out of five on my Water contest entry? I checked other entries and he gave several an undeserved one-star rating, probably to boost his own standing.

• You can learn a lot from Fotki members' photos. Like even the biggest tits in the world didn't always attract a ton of bead-throwers at Mardi Gras. Only white kids go to Eminem/50 Cent/Cypress Hill concerts — looks like a goddamn KKK rally. And, of course, never pass out when someone has a permanent marker around.

That's about it. If you have any Fotki secrets, tips or tricks to share, please leave a comment.

In Five Words or Less: Fotki Is Fucking Fantastic

Previously on PK.com

• New York Times Goes All Digi-Cam on Yo Ass
• What I Learned Buying a New Digital Camera
• Every Now and Then I Take a Nice Photo