Streaming photos with Apple TV 2

I want to stream, not sync, my iPhoto library to Apple TV (the library is located on the machine I'm using to sync & stream video and music). That worked fine under 1.x. After upgrading, it still seemed to work, but I have since done a factory restore on my Apple TV. Now I can't find an option that will allow Apple TV to see my library without syncing.
This article talks about setting up streaming, but it's based on 1.x, not 2.0:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306467>
What am I missing?

//Disclaimer : I might be wrong
iTunes treats Photos as an afterthought, something thrown in because of demand. To my knowledge there is no way to stream photos from iTunes short of uploading them to your Flickr/.Mac account and doing it that way (of course wasting a lof of bandwidth). Personally I just let the photos sync. I have 10k pictures of my 2 kids and its only 5gigs.

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