One album per outing, right on the event page - with EXIF for the gear talk and a contest when the walks add up.
The upload field sits on the event page itself, where everybody already is. A file dropped there becomes a real photo - camera settings, comment thread, a place in the club gallery - and stays linked to the walk it came from.
Each photo shows its EXIF data - aperture, shutter speed, ISO - so the gear talk has facts, and every shot has its own comment thread.
Every upload is filed under the date of the event it came from, so the gallery filters back down to a single outing without anyone tagging anything by hand.
Each photographer's own shots gather on one page, so you can follow a member's eye across the walks instead of digging through one album at a time.
A member's newest photos sit on their profile page, so a name in the RSVP list leads straight to the pictures behind it.
Members put their own best frames forward, a steward opens the round, and everybody picks. The winners stay on the page, so the club builds a wall of its own best work.
An album on every event page, EXIF on every shot, comments and a contest
A thread under every photo keeps critique findable
Uploads and discussion show up in one stream