Originally Posted by hokiefyd

You have them posted on Google Drive. I have found that Google's picture services (either Photos or Drive) are not very friendly to hotlinks like we use on internet forums. I use Google extensively, and have all of my devices linked to an synchronized with Google Photos, but I have a Flickr account that I use only for posting pictures to forums like this. Flickr has a very easy way to copy "BBCode" (Bulletin Board Code) right from their website and you can paste that direct link straight into a post like this one.

As it comes, it includes some text, and a link to the picture, like this:

2017-04-09_04-20-57 by jnjadcock, on Flickr

Or, you can manually trim out the URL tags, and have it just be a reference to the actual photo, like this: