I’m new to the photo sharing- I have a bike web site that is used to share photos of our rides. Since I am not the only picture taker, I would like to have an application that allows my “friends” to upload their photos of the ride "photo folder" as well.

For example- I create a folder named "Spring Ride Album". I am able to upload pics to the folder, and I want my friends to be able to upload pics to that same folder.

Does Zenphoto allow “friends” to add photos to a single account

TIA

Kind of depends on what you mean by "friends". Zenphoto has the ability to have multiple administrators with varying ADMIN rights. So you can create an admin account for each of your friends, assign them management and upload rights to an album. They then can upload to that folder.

Please read http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/07/an-overview-of-zenphoto-users/. It is a little out of date, but will give you the idea.