mschleisner ...there is specifically a section in a personal site for photographs...especially such things as that fave one of Fido the pet.

If you have a photo/image being rejected even though it is intended for your personal page that will be ONLY because you are attempting to upload it to your [personal] wallpaper gallery...and, as with anyone's wallpapers going anywhere, personal or public they are actually supposed to be wall proportion as well as suitable/passable through the moderation process.

Putting your photographs directly into your photo gallery [read NOT 'wallpaper gallery'] is not moderated.  Anything goes [as long as it is not porn/racist/etc].  These images can be any size...any content you wish.

Here is mine....yours would be similarly named....[replacing the 'Jafo' with your nick]

http://jafo.wincustomize.com/photos.aspx 

Now....if you look there you will find all sorts of images....even of my cat.  Just the place for what you were intending to submit via the wallpaper gallery upload process.

That is hardly going to appeal to anyone as a wall......other than maybe me and my 2 sisters....except the latter are not 'into' computers...so that leaves me...the rug-rat in the pic.

http://mschleisner.wincustomize.com/photos.aspx  is most likely your link to the same facility/feature of Wincustomize.com, accessible to all who wish it.

I need to apologise on behalf of any mod who may have appeared to you as 'angry'.  My guess is it is more likely to be a touch of 'frustration' towards the recurrence of misplaced submissions.

http://jafo.wincustomize.com/photos.aspx?cmd=addphoto&a=1&type=2 

That is my 'add photo' link....it is direct and unmoderated, as is yours....

Let me just add to that and remind people they have their own site URL.  For instance mine is http://islanddog.wincustomize.com. 

You can put this in your forums signatures on other sites you visit, put it in your email sig, make a banner and link the url, there are many possiblities.

Doing this will get people to visit your page.

OK...you're 'wrong or stupid' .....just kidding...

Yes, skinning is an artform ...wallpapers can be also.  However, not everything that qualifies as graphic art [pictures] will necessarily be actually suitable as a wallpaper.

This can be purely functionality issue, not aesthetics.

If an image is extremely strident and/or busy it may be genuinely abhorrent as a functioning desktop environment....but stuck over a fireplace may be perused lovingly over a bottle of red.

Wallpapers have a functionality criteria, whereas 'pure' art just needs to cover a spot of plaster wall...