Are you referring to the Visitor Photo Album? Those images don't get processed right away. As noted when uploading, they need to be reviewed manually. The most recently uploaded/approved pictures are first, so it shouldn't take too long to find your beardie once reviewed/approved. I don't review the pictures every day. I will go over them every few days, sometimes more than a week.
Using Photobucket has nothing to do with uploading pictures directly to the Visitor Photo Album, though. So, I'm a bit confused about what you tried and what you were expecting to see, that didn't work as expected... and how it relates to Photobucket.
Looking at the queue of images to process... there are 7 photos in total... from Dec 19 to Dec 27 (today). If yours is one of those, it should get processed shortly. Sorry for the delay, but I, like many others, am in the middle of holidays and travels.
I've also updated the "Thank you" page after an image is uploaded to indicate that it may take a few days sometimes.