[PeteVS]

Forgive me for not having read all the texts but my take is that the software that's used for this forum is ancient and it goes back to the the days when memory was expensive. If one has a ton of large format images, it takes a lot of money to store that data on a site that can be accessed by the public. As members of the forum, we're allowed a certain amount of data storage. If you want to post large pictures, you don't download the image, you download the ADDRESS of where your image lies. Over the years, there have been some wonderful threads with beautiful large images and in some cases, the poster of those images for one reason or another has abandoned those imagesly (possibly by not making payments for their storage) and the forum then will only show the address for the images USED TO BE. Pete, God bless him, has been keeping those big beautiful images out there for us all to enjoy. If for some reason he decides to no longer participate, we'll all be left hanging. Enjoy them while we can.