I completely agree with you Scott.

First of all, it is not necessary to put images here or in the gallery which have a 1024 or highter screen resolution. You can do this on your private homepage if you wish.
Often people put such big images where you have to scroll right and left and up and down to see a part of the (hmm! mostly not worth)picture. Personally, I just run away when this happens.

And in fact, we have to think to modem users. Before I got DSL shortly, I was always complaining for the same reason and even did not see all the images I would have loved to see. Now, with DSL, I can do it, but mostly I have not the time to wait for an image to load and go to the next one, mostly much better:-). And if it takes more then 10 or 20 seconds, I give up.

800x600 images with a lower weight then 150 KB (100-140) are OK.

Also, dear friends, if you want your images to be seen by everybody take care about what you upload. Otherwise don't wonder if you don't get comments. The size of the thumbnail is also very important. It should never be bigger then 10KB.

:-)Guitta