Hi Cherrybee,
Unfortunately, we've had to crop back on some of the images as the gallery was fast approaching our hosting limit. I've had to remove about 100 of my own images today and also some other photos have been removed as well. I've tried to do it as fairly as possible by removing pics that had lots of shots of the same species, or they weren't very clear, the subject was too small/distant, not in focus or the file was too large (in kbs)
We've had a sudden surge of images recently that has taken the gallery by surprise and put quite a bit of pressure on our resources. As a result, we're going to have to put some new guidelines in place for uploading images and I should hopefully have some more info on that tomorrow.
One of the crucial things is try and keep the filesize down below 250 kb - obviously a lot smaller would be even better, as long as it doesn't affect the quality of the image too much. We have an upper limit of 500k, which is OK in exceptional circumstances for really high-res, high detail, large images, but every time the image is viewed that's 1/2MB of download - so a few of those, viewed every minute creates quite a bit of traffic.
Sorry if some of the images that have been removed were yours, but hopefully when we've got more webspace we can make room them again.
Stu