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Here's what Flickr says about emailing photos to your blog.
We want to make it as easy as we can for you to get your photos online! Use your own unique address to email your photos directly into your Flickr account from your cameraphone or your email program. . . Post photos from Flickr directly to your blog. Just set up a connection between Flickr and your blogging service, and hey presto! Photoblog!
I email my photos to Flickr using my special email address and all of them appear on my Flickr page. However, until I recently switched to a Pro account (a nice Christmas gift), only some of them appeared on my blog.
The Flickr instructions don't say that people using the free account only get a certain quantity of photos emailed to their blog, but I suspected that was the case.
So I performed a test of my new Pro account status to see how many of 15 photos of Italy newly emailed to my Flickr account would also make it to my blog. In the past only a few would have, but now that I've paid for Pro status, they all did.
That's just one test, perhaps not sufficient proof to definitively say that Flickr doesn't mail all your photos to your blog unless you pay for a Pro account. If that's what's really going on at Flickr, they should state it right there on the instruction pages I quoted previously. And if it isn't what's going on at Flickr, why didn't all the photos make it to my blog before now?
I like Flickr and I'm willing to play by their rules in terms of how much I can upload and how much I can email to my blog. But the rules need to be clear. People need to know right up front what they are getting from your free service and exactly what the benefits are of signing up for the paid service. Otherwise, people are frustrated, confused, or (worst of all) not happy with the service. The point? Make it clear, make it obvious, make it easy.
