Google Photos

 

Google Photos

Why?

1. Unlimited storage (for GApps domains)
2. Support across all devices, mobile, laptop, desktop...
3. Mobile device/iPad friendly albums
4. Searchable photos, even without your naming them, Google can recognise the content in your photos, eg if you search for 'dog'. 
5. Media backup, using the desktop uploader you can now upload all (or as much as you want) of your media to Google Photos, and remove it from your hard drive to save space.

Google Photo Albums

You can easily find Google Photos, by using that link, or you can also find it by clicking on the app grid in GMail, then scroll down:

 

See this post for guidance on using Google Photo Albums, sharing them, adding collaborators to collate photos, creating animations, and collages, and even adding text ...