My favorite duck photo

I took this photo of a duck more than 20 years ago in a park in Massapequa, Long Island. When I saved the original photo in GIF format, it took up 449kb of space, but the thumbnail version you see here saved in jpg format only takes up 12kb.

Now I am going to insert the photo again here, but this time when you put your mouse pointer on top of the photo below, the pointer will turn into a hand. This hand in shows you are about to click on a hyperlink. Click and you will discover that you will be brought to a large size photo that would take much longer to load on a webpage than the thumbnail version on this page. Thumbnails give you a preview, leaving it up to you to decide if it is worth the wait to see the larger, more detailed photo.

Richard Gordon