Integrated Text/Photo Blog

Run over to WTC and look up two possibilities: One is Pictorialis, which is more of a moblog, and Pictorialis II, which is more of a gallery. Both are completely based on WP, and you have all of the WP functionality at your disposal as well as the extra features added on.
Mark also has a support forum dedicated to them as well.

I use Exhibit 1.1d which supports multiple photos and generally works ok. It is a pain to upload lots of photos and I have a problem with captions but it does work. Basically, for each new ‘album’ I create a new directory in my images directory and write a description of the album as a blog post, remembering to tick the ‘photos’ category. I choose the best photo and use it as a thumbnail for the album which appears on the front page. I then wrote a bit of php/css that creates pages to (1) list only the photo-albums (i.e. grab all posts in the photos’ category) and (2) show a nice layout of thumbnail images (9 per page). All of this is possible using the Exhibit package but it took a few days of coding to get it working well.
My biggest complaint is that creating new directories and uploading photos is a bit hit-and-miss at the moment. Photos that are too large (in kb not pixel dimension) give nasty errors on upload that users find frustrating. Creating directories works for some people but not all. I’ve also had to make the tiny images larger and generally make the upload dialogue box a little easier to understand.