I read a article that it's best to put images on flickr but flickr only gives you 100mb bandwidth. A digg effect would quickly eat up 100mb in minutes =[. I don't know why a lot of sites say put images on flickr!
Where is that article? IMHO, it won't make much difference. Why don't you try putting up the picture in a different hosting. They are saying to put pictures on flickr because it is stable. Just find another stable hosting and you are good to go.