create gallery without admin

This might do what you need: http://drupal.org/project/image_gallery_access

There may be modules that do this for taxonomy -- look for something like that.

There are other gallery modules already written, but they don't use the image module if that it what you are committed to. They are cck_gallery views_gallery and node_gallery.

If you are comfortable with doing some set-up work, you can use ideas from http://raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/hubert/outline-ui-design-ajax-... or http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach and Node-based galleries with CCK and Views to make your own user galleries.

There is also a discussion at Image Gallery Per User.

Actually, now that I think about it, what is the real problem?

If a user is allowed to create an image, then to create a gallery that image just needs to be given a term in the Gallery taxonomy.

So is your real problem allowing users to create a taxonomy term?

> So is your real problem allowing users to create a taxonomy term?

Yup -- see if there are modules that delegate creation of terms.

Hmm, a thought: you could always set the gallery vocab to tags.... ;)

I use a module called hierarchical_select which greatly enhances taxonomy selection. In it's 'Editability settings' you can allow the user to add new terms to the vocabulary.