[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Dave, Melbourne,Australia

This is my first attempt at posting a photo to a website or forum. The photo is of Gordon & me after his 30Mar2008 concert in Appleton, Wisconsin. If it works, I'll post a couple more photos from that night.

Oh dear oh dear I suspect that I am to blaim for the disappearing picture
Paul had asked me in a PM for guidance on displaying a picture here which I was very pleased to provide.
I tried to caution him about the problem posed by megapixel digital cameras which can save very large digital files that need resizing for Forum used and advised him to reduce any to a maximum of 640 wide before uploading to a storage site , and I advised him to use [url=http://www.xemico.com/photogadget/freeware.html]Photgadget]/url] or upload to http://www.imageshack.us and select their optional resizing facility.
In fact he did neither because whilst the picture is certainly at the propertied address revealed by right clicking the red square in a white box at:-
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3734/1730mar08gordonlightfooin6.jpg
opens his picture fine , I think its size caused the forum to give up the struggle if displaying it now.So it has not now "gone"
Because in fact the stored picture is all of 2048 by 1536, and is a fairly large 658KB jpg file (far too large to prevent RM from bitching!!)
I subjected my dial up connnection to getting it but it took ages and when completed the lower roughly 30% of the picure was a grey area I have resized it myself and cropped it to remove the grey part
it is now on my own website so I'll display it myself


TIP Paul and any others tempted to venture into this wonderful word of picture displaying.Do practise first with a much smaller digital picture by using the facility offerred by the Test forum, plus be sure to use the preview facility (if you initially make a complete dog's whatsits of it you can immediately cancel or indeed delete and try again}