Joe, I believe the size of your photos has to do with the pixel dimension yield of
your camera. For example, if you look in Photobucket at Barbara in Va's raspberries on the vine (currently the second row down from the general area and not in album), the pixel dimensions are 160 x 120 when you right click the photo and look at properties. The photo is larger than yours to begin with as you'll see as I've copied the "Direct Link" into the Image URL as shown here.
By comparison, right click on one of your photos and you will see that the dimensions are, taken clockwise inside your album: 160 x 101, 160 x 106, 160 x 119 (the Bar Crowd which is the largest), and the Buffet which is 160 x 102.
Barbara's raspberry photo did not shrink in size since posting some time ago.
I believe this is the answer. Only moi here has the capability of permanently shrinking photos after accidentally deleting them on June 17th!! After restoring from my cache, they shrunk permanently. I even ordered special recovery software online to no avail. Joe, are all of these photos from the same camera?
By the way, congratulations to you and Jacques!!
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