The Internet services that most people receive through their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) usually includes a modest amount of personal web space (PWS).  You will have to find out from your ISP exactly what is including in your package.  On the Internet, the address of this web space usually takes the form of:

http://www.ISP.com/~YourAccountName

where the http://www.ISP.com/ is the address of your ISP and YourAccountName is the username that your ISP assigns you and what you use to log onto the Internet.  As an example, an ISP in St. Catharines, ON is Merge Internet that has an address of http://www.mergetel.com/.  They have a page of their customers' personal web sites: http://www.mergetel.com/subscribers.html.  An example of a subscriber PWS is http://www.mergetel.com/~chanlon/.

This personal web space allows you to put any file on the Internet.  In your PWS, only files that are located in your public_html directory will be accessible to internet visitors.  If you had your own domain name, files located in this root directory would be what visitors would find when they entered your "www" web address.  In the public_html directory, you can create any number of subdirectories, and this would be advisable if you plan to be uploading a large number of files (including photos) to your PWS.

You need to acquire an FTP program for transferring the files on your home PC to your PWS.  You can buy these programs or you can download a free program.  Software manufacturers usually have a free version so that you can upgrade to the premium version once you realize how useful the free one is.  However, the free version may serve your purposes quite well.  Do a search for free FTP programs on the Internet to find what is currently available.  Some free FTP programs:

FileZilla (I use this one extensively)

Core FTP LE  (this one works well too)

Once you have your FTP program installed and running, you need to copy your files from your PC to your PWS.  Start off by creating a new FTP site and setting your server to your ISP's web address.  The user ID and password will be the same as what you are using now to log on to the internet.  The FTP program will do the rest in getting you connected.  Two windows will appear somewhere on the screen and usually the left window is your PC's source directory and the right window is your PWS directory.  Depending upon your ISP's directory structure, the destination directory may appear like:  /home/subscribers/YourAccountName/public_html/destination/.   Once you have located both your source and destination directories, save your configuration so that the FTP program will go to them automatically upon startup.

Your ISP should have an on-line procedure for publishing personal web pages that should look very similar to Merge Internet's: http://www.mergetel.com/webpublish.html.  If not, the Merge Internet's procedure should be enough to get you started.

Uploading Photos

Photos take a long time to load on a web page.  With broadband internet connections, this isn't a problem (for you if you have one) but a lot of people have dial-up connections and even one high resolution photo will take an eternity to load on a web page.  Unless you have a very good reason for not doing so, limit the maximum resolution of Internet photos to 640 x 480.  Always use JPEG (or JPG) format for photos, as well.  This is usually the default for digital cameras but, if not, configure your camera for this mode.  You can always reduce the resolution of a digital photo and you should do so for those photos destined for the Internet.