The reason the pictures don't show up in the original posts is that at the time of the original thread creation, we allowed HTML code to be inserted into posts. Due to some security issues, etc., we had to disable that capability a little over a year ago. (One of the many reasons we recommend that photos be uploaded directly to the forum, rather than linked to) But copy/paste of the URLs will get you to the photos...as Thomas has shown.
Jim
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