5K: I like your pictures and I appreciate the effort. But one reason I've purposely left out photos from the thread is the extra time it takes for them to load, especially here in China. But also anywhere with slow speeds or not on broadband connections. It's frustrating to now access my own thread and wait the extra minutes for these to load up.
I'm putting photos together on my flickr site and intend to link to that when I've finished the narrative, so people have a choice whether they wish to view or not depending on their technical setup/time. I wish you would consider doing the same, remove the photos from this thread and provide a link to them instead. They are nice photos.