I was looking for an application that can help me create categories and publish pictures with auto thumbnail generation, commenting and RSS feeds.

The commonly used ones like Gallery and Coppermin(?) have WAY too many features and appear complicated. I dont want users creating their own galleries etc. Just for myself.

Have any of you come across anything simple and easy to use with moderate functionality?

Can't say I have come across anything myself as I usually build most of my own apps.

Give www.hotscripts.com a try, you should be able to find something in there.

Made a search in sourceforge and came with this big list

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=gallery