Egads. I didn't actually figure it out,
but I did figure out how to make the photos look better.
I wouldn't usually want to chop up the photos this way
(portraits are usually vertical format),
but I'll have to
in order to cut back on the distortion.

In order to post pictures on this blog,
I'll have to crop them to be slightly more horizontal than square
before bringing them here.

So now I'll try to repost the ones I put up yesterday.
Someday, I hope I find out how I used to be able to post vertical pictures.
But til then, you'll see horizontal pictures.