PicasaWeb vs. Flickr

Does anyone that likes photography use PicasaWeb over Flickr? Am I just too much of a Google fanboy to not switch? Every time I look at my photos on PicasaWeb, there are tons of artifacts in the images and they are not as sharp. I know Google wants to reduce latency and provide a faster user experience, but can you not do that by sacrificing image quality, especially after I've gone through and painstaking post-processed each picture?

I also would like to see the stats that Flickr has on PicasaWeb, mostly because no one looks at my photos, so it's nice to know when it happens. On PicasaWeb, they have a view count, but they don't have a dashboard or easy way to see what photos have been looked at by people recently, or better yet, what the most viewed photo is. Surprisingly, I have around 65 views of this one flower shot that I took a couple days ago (the one of the side of the flower with the greenish background in my earlier posts) but I don't know where they came from and how they even knew it existed.

Anyways, I'm thinking of switching over until PicasaWeb can do something smarter.

Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI

I went to the zoo this past September when visiting my girlfriend in Madison, WI and I loved it. Even though the zoo was free, it was very well maintained and had a good amount of animals (although they had red pandas on their advertisements, the exhibit wasn't there yet). Here's one of my favorite shots (I think he's purposely posing):

And this is a close up:

And here's the lion they had:


I'll post more pics later, but if you are in the area, you should definitely check it out. It's totally worth it.

Another flower shot

This is the kind of picture that I've always wanted to try. Luckily, the pedals on this flower look nice and I was able to post process this image to get a colored rose on a unsaturated background. What do you think?

Flowers!

Took a few shots of some flowers by my house.

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Just some pics that I took at Lassen. I love that place. So beautiful.

Brokeoff Mountain (Not the same as Brokeback Mountain)



Lake Helen with Lassen Peak in the background



I love these clouds



Look at the view!



On top of Lassen Peak



Lassen Panorma

Speed of a puma! Strength of a bear!

OMG! Bravestarr is on Hulu! This used to be one of my favorite tv shows!! I love you HUlU!

If you haven't seen it, check it out here: http://www.hulu.com/bravestarr

Winchester Mystery House