Now... my title is not a complaint, I assure you, because I just love being here on WordPress.com. I'm using The Journalist 1.9, as this is one of the very few themes that are truly suitable for a photography blog, in my opinion.
Images can be reasonably large, and there's a nice, subtle border round them, which is so necessary. If you don't have a border, a very bright highlight area or a very dark shadow area near the edge of an image can blend in, to bad effec, with the theme background colour, depending whether that's white or black.
I'm staying around on WordPress.com because my blog looks good enough as it is, there are no complications in set up, and I like the company, too. I don't want to go self hosted with WordPress.org, for the reasons I've given, and because I already have my gallery site with a photo hosting company (zenfolio.com) that gives me a beautiful design, unlimited storage and ease of use, and lets me link my photos to my WordPress blog.
If only there were some themes that were really designed with photographers in mind. These would allow a very large size image, would have custom colours along the greyscale from white to black, and would have a subtle framing for images. Of course, it would still have the excellent WordPress.com admin set up and other features tha are already present.
If these types of themes were available, it could only be a plus for WordPress.com.
Thanks...