Hi Andrew,
The new upload system looks good but i would like to point out the importance of tags and categories. In D7, albums are not associated to tags or categories whereas photos are associated to tags and categories. It will make more sense if we can associate albums to tags and categories and further there should be an option to apply the same tags to all the photos under that album. Right now, we have to add category and tags individually to each photo. So if we are uploading 10 albums/day see more with each containing 30 pics, we have to add tags and categories to 300 pics/day which makes no sense at all.

Secondly, when someone wants to search photos under a certain category e.g. "Birthday Pics", it makes more sense to show them albums like "Brad Pitt Birthday Pics", "Obama birthday pics" etc instead of showing them individual photos which makes no sense.

Tags are the most important thing from SEO perspective and just uploading photos without adding tags is a useless thing if your site is new and your want Google and other search engines to index your site pages. So adding tags should be as easy as possible.

Currently we are hacking the BxPhotosUploader file to achieve the above effect :)

Thanks
Armaan