Nice pics!
I bet I know what is happening with the rotating..
many image viewers (I use Irfanview) can "read" the metadata on a photo, they know if the photo was taken vertically or horizontally,
they will *display* the vertical photos vertically, so to you, they look "rotated" and they appear "right side up"..
but! they havent been rotated in reality..they are only displayed rotated, for your benefit..
so you might think "those are already rotated"..upload them, then discover they aren't rotated afterall..
Or..picasa might also be "automatically rotating" them for you..
So when you are in picasa, they appear rotated..(but again, they arent in reality)
then when you post them to a forum, like here, they appear the way they really are..not rotated..
So, even if they look rotated in picasa, you still have to manually rotate them..because they arent rotated in reality!
even though they look like they are..
Scot