The API 
docs<https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/2.0/developers_guide_java#ListPhotos>say
 that an URL like this...

https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/*username*?kind=photo

...will "retrieve the latest photos uploaded by username" (unfortunately 
with no definition as to what "latest" means, or how to specify a time 
range).  However, when I try, I get wildly inconsistent results, especially 
with regards to the openSearch.totalResults field.  I have 75 photos in my 
account, but the openSearch.totalResults field is *never* 75 for me, but 
rather always something smaller like 65, 68, or 71.  I'm apparently not the 
only one with this problem, because the exact same behavior was reported in 
issue 
2403 <http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2403> ...over *two 
years* ago.  And, from what I can tell, issue 
2825<http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2825>is related.

Since this problem is apparently over two years old, I'm not holding my 
breath for a fix any time soon, so how do people actually use the API to 
retrieve photos if you can't rely on totalResults being correct or 
consistent?  Is there a workaround?  Or am I just misunderstanding the API?

thanks,

Chris

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