Image or photo powered blogs can be great ways to gain web site visitors, because everybody likes to browse though photos.  Then again, any web site could really be benefited by using images or photos in new and interesting ways too.  From image enhancements to full photo blogging power, here are the twenty best photo and image related plugins for WordPress.

NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slide show option.

Shadowbox JS – Shadowbox is an online media viewing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media.

Flickr Photo Album – This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photo-sets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

Featured Content Gallery – Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

Shutter Reloaded – Darkens the current page and displays an image on top (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.

Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.

Random Image Selector – Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides a tag for it.

Dynamic Content Gallery – Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one category, a mix of categories, or pages.

Yet Another Photoblog – Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photo-blog in virtually no time.

Lightbox Plus – Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images from the current page and display simple slide shows, all in an overlay.

Lightbox 2 – Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay pop-ups.

Broken Link Checker – This plugin will check your posts, custom fields and the blogroll for broken links and missing images and notify you if any are found.

SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.

Lazyest Gallery – Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation, comments on images, and a slide show.

Thumbnail Viewer – A minimalist image viewer with an effect similar to Lightbox JS, only much faster with a whole lot less Javascript.

Regenerate Thumbnails – Allows you to regenerate all thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.

PhotoXhibit – PhotoXhibit provides an interface to set up gallery widgets using Picasa / Flickr / SmugMug / WordPress Uploads and jQuery.

flickrRSS Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photo-streams.

PhotoSmash Galleries – user contributable photo galleries for WordPress pages and posts with options. Auto-add galleries or specify.

Hope you enjoyed this collection of WordPress plugins.  We would not suggest trying to use them all at once – however there are enough listed here to fit just about any image or photo idea you have.  WordPress is a powerful content management system that you can proudly host using one of the many Lunarpages web hosting plans too.

Have a favorite plugin we might have overlooked?  Leave it in the comments and share it with the rest of us.