While everybody's photos are nice, and that's why we look at them,
nevertheless I find myself drawn to the ones that are less than 500 kb in
size. Padraig's "Rufous Hummer" is only 144 Kb, and loads very quickly, for
those of us with dial-up and other slower computers.And it's a fantastically
clear photo, and fits into my monitor with only a little moving R/L or
Up/Down.

Photos of over 1 Mb are usually ignored by me because they are, frankly, far
too large to fit on my monitor, so I have to do a lot of scrolling. So I
never get to see the whole photo.

I hope I haven't offended anybody over this but I just think there must be
a way for people to reduce their picture size so their photos don't take so
long to load, and also fit on the monitors of their viewers. Padraig has
done this, and hats off to him.

s.