Ive always just used flickr, it died a fair bit when i got messed with with a while back but its always been better than Picasa (now google Photos), though i do like the google photo stories where it uses the geotag info to include maps.

i just had a look at imgur but its not very intuitive. i couldnt work out a way of uploading 10 pics to a ‘for sale’ album say, ready to embed here.

You just select another image, it stacks them and you upload. It then will provide with the BB code for each one.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/A5kETT]2015-10-21_07-52-01[/url] by Central Scrutinizer, on Flickr

is it just this site that has the problem with g+ pics then, or is g+ a nightmare to embed everywhere?

Far as I can see, hotlinking of G+ images is ‘protected’. It’s not an STW issue beyond the fact that STW hotlinks rather than hosts its own uploads.