I have merged my MT photoblog (actually there were only a handful of posts) in here. I have read about Pictorialis and Gallery, but I finally adopted the hack provided by the blog Tell it in Love.
But I have problems to apply the hack to quicktag.js as described. After I replaced the code and uploaded the amended file to my server, it does not do the trick. In Firefox, the old quicktag showed up which asked for the complete address of the photograph rather than just its filename. In Internet Explorer, it is more absurd: all the quicktags were gone! I originally thought that it might be a cache problem, I tried several times and the problem was still there. Finally I gave up this supposed-to-be-great quicktag modification and only went with the popup code, which works perfectly.
So now I have my photoblog installed. Although I am not completely satisfied, I can live with it for a while 
When the quicktags go missing, it usually means something didn’t copy over quite right in the cut/paste. If you ever want to give it another try, let me know & I’ll take a look at your quicktags.js to help troubleshoot it.
Regardless, glad you have something working for you!