In alt.crafts.blacksmithing DeepDiver wrote:

Hi Dave, nice site. Regarding the bandwidth issue, the problem is
not the number of "hits", but rather the quantity of data
(measured in bytes) that is downloaded by your visitors. I looked
at your site last night (between "bandwith exceeded" errors) and
noticed that your large images are very data "heavy" (i.e., they
have very large data byte sizes).
snipped excellent post thanks:
- Michael

I haven't seen the pictures yet but want to soon someday want
to do basically the same thing, make steel from iron sand

The lack of picture cropping is usually the first thing I notice.

Since I mostly use a scanner, cropping and sizing is easy as pie but
for the photos I run it through PaintShop anyway. I my situation
I'm using a stripped-down version that's a free demo. My son bought
the real thing, but I prefer the stripped-down demo.

Everytime you re-save a picture (with .jpg at the end) the picture
is degraded some so the trick is to crop and rotate and re-size or
re-sample before that last save.

Using the mechanical zoom feature on the camera and carefully frame
the photo to start with, is a good beginning in my experience.

"Up close" with the wide angle lense setting makes everything look
too fore-shortened otherwise, IME.

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/furnace.jpg
That's not even full-tilt zoom.
(my girlfriend is behind the cardboard

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/myal1.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/myal2.jpg
I think that's the one I remarked back to him "nice lawn".
He's a knifemaker in Oz (automotive leak spring).

Alvin in AZ