Image gallery design

This isnt a 'c#' specific question but since I program in c# primarily, I thought I'd ask here ;)

I'm designing a family photo gallery for myself and just wanted to ask what everyone's ideas were on how to go about this.

I started this by simply using the file system and doing direct image manipulation ( using the originals to create thumbnails on the fly and showing 'album sizes' , getting the exif info etc ) but I thought it might be more efficient to store the album sized images in a database along with info like what album they belong to etc. I'd still store the original images on the file system of course.

Thoughts?

hey mods..This thread will be talking about doing this in asp.net 2 so you might want to move this to the asp.net forum....my bad