Everything at Gardenweb is the copy and paste into the body of the message method that I was using here that got all my pictures wiped out when the immage links were disabled. Only on Gardenweb you use the HTML code instead of the image script code on the bottom of your pictures in photobucket.
So I take pictures and upload them to my computer. Then I name the ones I want and download them to photobucket. The choosing of which pictures to use takes me a while but the upload to photobucket is literally a minute or two for 60 pictures or more. Then just make a post using the copy and paste the codes and all the pictures show up. It sounds more complicated than it is.
Here I have to use the upload button and so choose an image directly from the computer. The ones there on the hard drive are not resized as my pictures resize as they are being uploaded into photobucket (one of the options of how to do it). I am sure the lack of resizing is part of the reason it takes so long.
I even tried changing the image resolution in the camera to make it less and see if it made it any faster. No dice so I changed it back in the camera to the way it was.
It baffles me that people have the time to post many pictures here. It just takes too long. It is a nice site otherwise and a very friendly bunch of people.