PhotoBucket®

From now on, every time you see “art” on this here blog, it will be from PhotoBucket.
“Art” is the commonplace newspaper terminology for supporting photos, graphs, maps, etc.
Used to be all my “art” was stored here at BlogSpot.
I would crank a BlogSpot http address into my image-source, and that art would display on this blog.
I can use the following HTML image-tag:
<TABLE ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=403 HSPACE=4 VSPACE=4 FRAME=1 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=1><TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE=HELVETICA color=#000000 SIZE=+1><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">header</span></span></TD></TR></FONT><TR><TD WIDTH=403><img SRC="???????.jpg" height=hgt width=403></TD></TR><TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT FACE=HELVETICA color=#000000 SIZE=-2><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by the so-called “old guy” with the dreaded<br>and utterly reprehensible Nikon D100 camera.</span></TD></TR></FONT><TR><TD ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE=HELVETICA color=#000000 SIZE=-1><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Caption</span></span></TD></TR></FONT></TABLE>
403 is the pixel-width of the art (403 pixels). I fill in the height; whatever it is. The art has a small frame around it. If the art was by someone else, if at all, I change the byline; or delete. The <br> is the break-tag; a one-line drop — I use it as a paragraph return.
(Don’t copy that tag; I had to replace the carets with non-HTML equivalents lest this site read the tag.)
The art can be anything; usually photos, but often scans or screenshots.
Everything was resized down to 5.597 inches wide, and converted to j-peg, resolution of 72 pixels-per-inch. So it displays correctly — at screen-resolution; 72 pixels-per-inch.
5.597 inches is column-width at BlogSpot.
I could use my HTML picture-tag. My Internet browser FireFox displays it right, but Internet-Explorer chokes.
It shoves tiny slivers of my story-text up to the right of the art (into my blurb).
Since I figured most blog-surfers were using Internet-Explorer, I don’t use the HTML picture-table at BlogSpot.
I wrote up my own picture-tag Internet-Explorer doesn’t choke on:
<img src="??????????????????">
<span style="font-weight:bold;">caption. <span style="font-style:italic;">(Photo by ??????????????)</span></span> (Don’t copy this either — same caret change.)
I’ve also noticed if the picture is less than column-width, Internet-Explorer doesn’t choke. —It can be the HTML picture-tag.
“Art” was stored at BlogSpot, perhaps “Picasa®.”
Well, BlogSpot is no longer accepting my art uploads, which leads me to think I inadvertently maxxed an unannounced storage limit.
What to do?
Quite often my blogs needed supporting art.
I needed another storage medium.
My wife suggested “PhotoBucket.”
PhotoBucket trumpets itself as a source for really great photographs. But to me it is only a storage medium.
Browse my “albums,” and ya won’t see any better than what’s on this here blog.
Plus I can delete pictures, so it won’t max. —Couldn’t with BlogSpot.

• For almost 10 years I worked at the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired almost four years ago. Best job I ever had.
• RE: “‘Old guy’ with the dreaded and utterly reprehensible Nikon D100.......” —My macho, blowhard brother-from-Boston, who is 13 years younger than me, calls me “the old guy” as a put-down (I also am the oldest — 65). I also am loudly excoriated by all my siblings for preferring a professional camera (like the Nikon D100) instead of a point-and-shoot. This is because I long ago sold photos to nationally published magazines.
• My wife of 41+ years is “Linda.” Like me she’s retired, but she works part-time at the West Bloomfield post-office. —Before retiring, she was a computer programmer.