You say ... "I put these in in the form of links because I kept getting told the images were too large (even after I shrunk them to 800 x 534 px) so I'm going to have to go re-read the permissible sizes again I guess"
Here are the forum size restrictions;
Filesize limits on this forum - upped to 325K - Need to resize your pictures?
I'm thinking I may have to do what you have done and create a website to link to. I seem to lose a lot of quality when I have to reduce the images to the forum size restrictions.

These images are beautiful. Well done.