Most of my picts are 1.4M or larger that I compress using MS Office Picture Manager at work edited with the compress option for Web pages. This reduces the file size (and picture size) to approx 90K. Then I attach them directly from my hard drive (we have shared servers as drives but I keep my personal stuff on my local box). Below is the result of those efforts.....
I can view most poster's pictures but lately a few poster's pictures get hung up somewhere. I haven't been able to view Earl's pictures and several other posters besides yours. This technology age is outpacing me. Oh well.........