Separate Blog Entries for Images

Preparing to migrate my big giant Domestik Goddess blog from Wordpress to Majestic, I've been trying to think everything out in advance - how I want to change the way I've been structuring the blog so far, and so on , based on how I see it developing in the future...

One thing I'm not sure how to handle - that's the images I've uploaded to illustrate the posts.

You know how all the images get their own page when brought in from WP, as well as appearing in the posts? WP does the same thing (makes a page for each image) but those pages are "hidden" unless the blogger specifically links to them when placing the thumbnail.

Sometimes I like to use that separate image page - when there's more to say about the image, for example; but sometimes I don't need it and would rather not have it shown.

At present (on the DG-Majestic test site) all the image pages are shown on the page just as if they were separate posts. I'd rather have it so that they're "one layer back," so to speak - so that those image pages can be accessed by readers if I link to them from the relevant post,  but aren't given the same prominence as the post pages.

Don't know if you can make any sense of my question - and maybe I'm just missing something totally obvious - but thought I'd toss it out there, anyway!  The whole question of how best to handle images is a tricky one, actually. A photo blog or photo tutorial - no issue. But when the images are generally just used as illustration, how might that be handled?

Oh - I should say that I'd rather not stash the images on photobucket or flickr or such; experience tells me its best to keep the whole blog package in one piece, in one place.