http://imgur.com/Well, I have been enlightened thanks to our buddy RG. He suggested imgur as a photohosting site. It works great. Easy Peasy. I uploaded the two photos below, generated the links and had them posted on here in less than one minute. Seriously. I have DSL for internet service, 3 mbps download so upload is usually less than 1 mbps. Previously when using Photobucket I wouldn't resize my photos first and it took forever for them to upload. RG suggested I size them first using paint, which I did to 800 X 600. Uploaded almost instantly. that's the first major improvement.
Using imgur was the second. Once uploaded all I had to do was click on "view image info", then "generate image links", select the photos I want links for, click on "done".
That opens a box that allows you to select the type of link, select "BBCode" and you can also select image size, I just left it at the default "original image". After doing that the links are created and highlighted, they can all be copied and pasted at the same time. Fantastic, wish I would have know about this much sooner, would have saved me countless hours. No more copying and pasting one photo at a time as with photobucket. Thanks again RG



